"You manage things; you lead people."

-- Grace Hopper

#Leadership Quotes #People Quotes #Manage Quotes

“I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.”
“When I was 3 years old, I thought I was very good at skiing.”

Source : "Not My Job: Skier Mikaela Shiffrin Gets Quizzed On Downhill Cheese Races". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. July 11, 2014.
“I know how important it is to have people who believe in you even when you don't believe in yourself.”
“We're each given one life, and it's our job to make it useful, beautiful, and fulfilling. There is no value in suffering through it, doing something we hate. There's no prize at the end for that kind of endurance. Just a spent life.”
“...I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me to think Who's that? and want to get to know me, and listen to what I say." "I'd rather have something to say.”

Source : Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.89, Simon and Schuster
“This town of Sheffield is very populous and large, the streets narrow, and the houses dark and black, occasioned by the continued smoke of the forges, which are always at work: Here they make all sorts of cutlery-ware, but especially that of edged-tools, knives, razors, axes, &. and nails”
“Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.”

Source : William Andrus ALCOTT (1846). “The Young Woman's Guide to Excellence ... Tenth Stereotype Edition”, p.127

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