"There are six elements of gravitas critical to leadership: grace under fire, decisiveness, emotional intelligence and the ability to read a room, integrity and authenticity (people don't like fakes), a vision that inspires others, and a stellar reputation."

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Sylvia Ann Hewlett

#Integrity Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Fire Quotes

“Be firm on principle but flexible on method.”
“This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection.”
“But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.”

Source : Betsy Lerner (2010). “The Forest for the Trees (Revised and Updated): An Editor's Advice to Writers”, p.122, Penguin
“Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast sea of God.”

Source : Richard Selzer (1987). “Taking the World in for Repairs”, Penguin Group USA
“How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!”
“Where there is creativity there is hope and Haiti is the most hopeful place I've experienced”
“It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.”
“As long as I'm an hour away from a major airport, I can get to that job.”

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