"How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues, be tempted to lose focus? Especially since the work involves such breadth that the boredom of routine or specialization does not exist."

-- Bill Drayton

#Leadership Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Boredom Quotes

“Outside of Christ, I am only a sinner, but in Christ, I am saved. Outside of Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full. Outside of Christ, I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ, I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, "in Christ."”

Source : Watchman Nee (1999). “Secrets to Spiritual Power: From the Writings of Watchman Nee”, p.74, Whitaker House
“I think you should use whatever power you have to try to help people who need your help. Then we'd all be happy. Instead there's this bizarre notion the government propounds that we should all run around selfishly acquiring money. I just don't understand that.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Ursula Kenny, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2005.
“I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.”
“The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of history.”
“Better to operate with detachment, then; better to have a way but infuse it with a little humor; best, to have no way at all but to have instead the wit constantly to make one's way anew from the materials at hand.”

Source : Lewis Hyde (2010). “Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art”, p.398, Macmillan
“Forgiveness is a form of the highest love”
“We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.”
“In a way, that's really reassuring. I'm not just a very limited person to not have figured it out at this point. But it's also intimidating. Well, how long is it going to take before you can have a good time?”

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