"I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake."

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Source : Kelley Armstrong (2011). “The Gathering”, p.157, Penguin Group

Kelley Armstrong

#Dream Quotes #Missing Someone Quotes #Mistake Quotes

“Basically, as a leader, I try not to make any mistakes, because there's a lot of people watching even though you don't think so.”
“There are plenty of wonderful, good fat people in the USA that have no problems being fat, who I have no problems with being fat.”
“I love when things bend out of shape. That's why I love drum and bass music.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet baseness. I doubt I am. Being meâ€™s no joke.”
“I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.”
“A single note, held in an amber suspension of time, like a charcoal drawing of Icarus falling. It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity. It went on and on, until my own lungs were burning. â€œWhat bird are you calling?â€ I asked finally, when I couldnâ€™t stand it any longer. The Bird Man stopped whistling. He grinned, so that I could see all his pebbly teeth. â€œYou.”
“In order to achieve the most noble accomplishments, the leader may have to 'enter into evil.' This is the chilling insight that has made Machiavelli so feared, admired, and challenging. It is why we are drawn to him still...”

Source : Michael A. Ledeen (2007). “Machiavelli on Modern Leadership: Why Machiavelli's Iron Rules Are As Timely And Important Today As Five Centuries Ago”, p.90, Macmillan
“Like two sparrows in a hurricane trying to find their way.”

Source : Song: Two Sparrows In A Hurricane

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