"The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template."

-- Ronald A. Heifetz

#Past Quotes #Imperfect Quotes #Currents Quotes

“Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present.”
“In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes up there between the world of opposites watching your 'play' in the world.Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.”
“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.”
“It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.”
“Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning.”

Source : David Hackett Fischer (2006). “Washington's Crossing”, p.370, Oxford University Press
“I never had an official job, but I did play at a local cantina every Tuesday night, and I babysat a lot.”

Source : "Michelle Branch". www.seventeen.com. October 13, 2009.
“Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.”
“But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.”

Source : "La Dorotea". Book by Lope de Vega, 1632.

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