"Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others."

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Source : Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.72, Profile Books

Marshall Goldsmith

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“The endless, useless urge to look on life comprehensively, to take a bird's-eye view of ourselves and judge the dimensions of what we have or have not done: this is life as landscape, or life as rÃ©sumÃ©. But life is incremental, and though a worthwhile life is a gathering together of all that one is, good and bad, successful and not, the paradox is that we can never really see this one thing that all of our increments (and decrements, I suppose) add up to.”

Source : "My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer". Book by Christian Wiman, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2013.
“All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.”
“'District 9', 'Elysium' and 'Chappie' were all born out of some visual concept first. 'Chappie' is the imagery, because I think I'm a visual person first, of this ridiculous robot character. It's much more comedy based and in an unusual setting.”
“I love to cook. But I'm a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have a conversation and come back and everything's burnt.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.”

Source : "Sincerely Yours, John Cusack". Interview with Steven Goldman, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1990.
“You do not mess with the special investigators.”
“What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and identifying itself? By what means shall its inchoate and amorphous estate be organized into effective political action relevant to present social needs and opportunities? What has happened to the public in the century and a half since the theory of political democracy was urged with such assurance and hope?”
“Music chooses her musicians.”

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