"Leadership means realizing potential-in yourself and in the people you lead.... The leader and followers cocreate their identities and performance."

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Source : Justin Menkes (2013). “Better Under Pressure: How Great Leaders Bring Out the Best in Themselves and Others”, p.5, Harvard Business Press

Justin Menkes

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“I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.”
“In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (1972). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”
“In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost.”
“In the end all that matters is climbing and pushing your personal limits. No matter the grade, if you climb something that was hard for you, then that's sick.”
“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”

Source : John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket
“In actuality it's drum samples in the computer. I don't know, I've just never really dug into that whole technology thing, I feel like it hurts me as a musician a little.”
“I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.”
“I was fortunate to be around a couple of coaches who took me under their wing and taught me how to train, how to work and how to prepare myself for a game. They gave me so much, and I saw the passion they had for the game and for teaching it. What I learned from them led me to want to become a teacher and coach.”

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