"When I ask candidates to tell me about their weaknesses, I am hoping for a wise, honest, and self-confident answer. When I hear a candidate rationally admit a weakness, I am impressed. When I hear a candidate duck the question with language straight out of a book, I start thinking about the next candidate."

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Source : Eric Sink (2006). “Eric Sink on the Business of Software”, p.104, Apress

Eric Sink

#Wise Quotes #Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Only power can get people into a position where they may be noble.”

Source : Quoted in M Korda Power in the Office (1976).
“We're always inventing, even if we're making someone who's fairly close to ourselves.”
“Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.”
“In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.”
“You and I can profit by asking ourselves: What do I see when I look through the lens of my attitude toward myself? Am I more a critic than a friend? Do I look beyond the surface blemishes to find the truly beautiful and unique person that I am? Or do I play the destructive "comparison game"? What verdict does the juror of my mind pass on me: "good at heart" or "guilty on all counts"?”
“Worrisome. It's romanticism, and it's dangerous to have children and students on the street.”
“For me, I took the exact right path. The cranky, independent one. And I've never looked back on it with anything but joy.”
“Remember that you are not called to produce successful, upwardly mobile, highly educated, athletically talented machines...Givi ng your children great opportunities is good; it is not, however, the goal of parenting. Christlikeness is. Above all, seek to raise children who look and act a lot like Jesus.”

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