"It hasn't always easy to combine these two competing ambitions and, in retrospect, it's a shame no one steered me towards science communications, which I think would have suited me down to the ground. But careers advice has largely been absent from my life, so I have pretty much made it up as I've gone along!"

-- Suw Charman-Anderson

#Communication Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Itâ€™s not easy to get rid of unwanted things.”
“The West remains obsessed by the caste system.”
“What people don't tell you is freedom comes with a lot of work! I'm definitely grateful for the freedom to call my own shots. However, you don't have the luxury of leaning on a squad of people to put stuff in motion. It's just you and your homeboys trying to figure it out. It gets challenging at times.”
“A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.”
“Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.”
“A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.”

Source : Yehuda Amichai (2013). “The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai”, p.152, Univ of California Press
“The big thing in life is to focus on providing more value to people than they expect. The rest comes then.”
“In chaotic situations, I feel like I can take a breath and look around and assess the situation and see the big picture. Going through the traumatic time that I did in my life, that's also given me even more of a breather in life to just be like, "I know everything's going to be fine. Even if this is the worst show in the world, no matter what happens, everything's going to be fine." It's an accumulation of things.”

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