"When the Vent begins, you might confuse [it] for a conversation. It's not. It's a Vent. It's a mental release valve and your job is to listen for as long as it takes. Don't problem solve. Don't redirect. Don't comfort. Yet. Your employee is doing mental house cleaning and interrupting this cleaning is missing the point. They don't want a solution, they want to be heard."

-- Rands

#Jobs Quotes #Long Quotes #House Quotes

“It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Washington every day in words and actions that we are a sovereign nation, not a sanctuary nation.”
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

Source : "Heads and Tales". Book by Malvina Hoffman, p. 47, 1936.
“Sometimes the things that hurt are worth the pain.”
“The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.”
“Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.”
“Rather than becoming discouraged, know that encountering a wall is proof of the progress that you have made so far.”
“What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.”
“When you upload a picture of your delicious Caesar salad to Instagram, you don't realize that what you're doing is leaving a tiny little footprint that will be there forever. This seems to be a human impulse.”

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