"Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine."

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Source : Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

Chris Hadfield

#Team Quotes #Goal Quotes #Shining Quotes

“In many parts of the world the people are searching for a solution which would link the two basic values: peace and justice. The two are like bread and salt for mankind.”
“I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!”
“What does reflect reality very well is complexity theory, which comes from physics. I'm the one pioneering the idea of bringing it to capital markets. When you look at capital markets through the lens of complexity theory, you ask "what's the scale of the system?" Scale is a fancy word for size. What measures are you using? If you look at total debt, the concentration of assets in the five largest banks, what percentage of the total assets of the five largest banks are interconnected? What you see is a very densely connected, fragile system that could collapse at any moment.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“When we renounce our dreams, we find peace and enjoy a brief period of tranquillity, but the dead dreams begin to rot inside us and to infect the whole atmosphere in which we live. What we hoped to avoid in the Fight -disappointment and defeat- become the sole legacy of our cowardice.”
“He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.”

Source : Susanna Clarke, Portia Rosenberg (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.604, A&C Black
“Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.”
“True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.”
“Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.”

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