"The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace."

-- Allen Tate

#Encouragement Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I don't really get recognised very much.”

Source : "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2007.
“It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.”
“I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my attention. I would never cease to look around me and observe myself in relation to nature: either crystal clear skies and sun-melting afternoons, or foggy winter days and weirdly tinted nights. I would never cease to dream and stand by the window, ready to let the diversity of life pass freely through my skin; courageous enough to believe I stood a chance in devouring each shade of sensation. Or perhaps, immensely foolish to plainly - believe at all.”
“I was incredibly different as a child from everybody else. But really, I was just who I was. I was born that way.”
“Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.”
“Disarming behavior, where you have two sides involved in a conflict that everybody has stereotypes of the evil other side that is convinced that they would never ever do something reasonable. If a leader on one of those sides were to defy those stereotypes then it would change everything.”
“I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.”
“People aren't very good listeners, by nature ... Part of being a good communicator is recognizing and understanding that and trying to make the complex simple. I try to capture a concept, an idea or a moment in a few words. If they remember it, job done.”

Source : "Inside Tomlin's Style: Humility, Words Matter for Steelers Coach". Interview with Jarrett Bell, usatoday30.usatoday.com. January 31, 2009.

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