"Values are shaped and refined by rubbing against real problems, and people interpret their problems according to the values they hold."

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Source : Ronald A. HEIFETZ, Ronald A Heifetz (2009). “Leadership Without Easy Answers”, p.22, Harvard University Press

Ronald A. Heifetz

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“You can't always get out on the mountain, so I'll put rubber on the end of my ice tools and climb the tread wall, a rotating rock wall I have in my backyard.”

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“Persecution always says, 'I know the consequences of your opinion better than you know them yourselves.' But the language of toleration was always amicable, liberal, and just: it confessed its doubts, and acknowledged its ignorance ... Persecution had always reasoned from cause to effect, from opinion to action, [that such an opinion would invariably lead to but one action], which proved generally erroneous; while toleration led us invariably to form just conclusions, by judging from actions and not from opinions.”

Source : "Charles James Fox: A Man for the People" by Loren Reid, (p. 261), 1969.
“I'm hatin' my reflection, I walk around the house tryin' to fight mirrors, I can't stand what I look like”
“...'I thought the rule was that all monks were shaved.' 'Oh, Soto says he is bald under the hair,'said Lu Tze. 'He says the hair is a separate creature that just happens to live on him.”
“When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.”
“Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.”
“I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.”
“Where I grew up in Pakistan, it's really the luck of the draw. My mother got married when she was 17. She never went to college but she wanted each and every one of us to go to college and then work. She was relentless about it. And i think that part of who i am is shaped by her strength.Â If [girls] families support them, they can achieve their dreams”

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