Sayingsand quotes
Learning is different for different people and the Chinese proverb that “when the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear”, has been so true in my life.
Learning happens when you are open and ready for it and what is being taught has some relevance to the issues of the day.
It also has to be adapted as what worked in one context is never directly transferable. You have to make it fit the environment and culture you are within. But learning from others is key to becoming an optimal leader.
“A leader is someone who can articulate a vision + get others to carry it out”
“I hate hearing someone senior self justify – It’s a genetic fault in leadership – Don’t tell me its because – tell me how we can use the experience to make us stronger braver and most importantly – Just get real”
“All I ask each day is you learn something that makes you better at what you do”
“Success is a poor teacher – it cons you into thinking you are better than you are”
“Do what you love – love what you do – everything else is detail”
“A leader never stops learning – never stops teaching + never stops looking to the future”
“We can create Leadership Capacity by working twice as hard as our competition”
“I constantly struggle along the way – nothing has come easy.”
“Struggling is ok – enduring the struggle is what leads to the success. “
“There is always going to be someone faster smarter taller more experience than you but the rewards don’t always go to them.
The rewards in life go to the dogged – the determined – those that can keep going + pick themselves back up again + never say die + just hang in there.”
“We can create even more capacity by being better leader’s everyday”
“Profit is a poor measure but an excellent discipline – without it you can’t continue – but focus on it + it may disappear”
“Don’t tell me what you are doing – tell me what you have stopped doing to enable faster doing”
“If a leader has never made a big mistake then they are likely to be cautious and average”
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.”
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
“Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.”
“Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”
“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
“Do or do not. There is no try.”
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
“If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
“What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
‘Be the change you want to see”
