"It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed."

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Source : "I Was Impossible, but Then I Saw How to Lead". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. December 3, 2011.

Ruth Simmons

#Judging Quotes #Ego Quotes #Important Quotes

“There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.”

Source : Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.211, Macmillan
“There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.”

Source : Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.8, Chosen Books
“To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of an aviator, an actor, a football player, an orator are often responsible for the beginning of a love affair.”
“I'm patient when it comes to my career, which is unlike me, but there are no stars in my eyes.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no!”
“As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties.”

Source : Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam
“I first started writing music when I was 15 and at 16, I was playing in different cities in Australia. When I was 18, I was voted number one DJ in Australia.”
“As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.”

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