"Deep down you know you can be remarkable. You shouldn't settle for anything less than your best self, reaching ever closer to your potential -- whether as a leader or in any other part of your life."

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Source : Kevin Eikenberry (2011). “Remarkable Leadership: Unleashing Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time”, p.3, John Wiley & Sons

Kevin Eikenberry

#Self Quotes #Leader Quotes #Settling Quotes

“I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.”
“You will never make it. ‘It’ doesn’t exist for an artist.”
“I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.”
“Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.”
“Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right? I want it that way.”

Source : "The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music?" by Imogen Tilden, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2013.
“Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.”
“[On social change:] What I say is that if one country is annexed by another, its nationality is not changed overnight. Social processes are often very, very slow.”
“I think 'growing up' would mean that you are incredibly tolerant and easygoing, liked everything, curious about the world because you weren't so egotistically driven.”

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