"Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, and relationships that have lost their meaning."

-- John C. Maxwell

#Leadership Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.”
“Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.”
“It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.”
“It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't necessarily make a business better.”
“Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.”
“If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.”
“I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.”
“There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.”

Source : Maurice Blanchot (2015). “The Space of Literature”, p.264, U of Nebraska Press

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