"Have respect for every person and every issue directed at you. Do not dismiss any encounter as insignificant."

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Source : John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.63, Green Dragon Books

John Heider

#Issues Quotes #Mentor Quotes #Encounters Quotes

“I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.”
“The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.”
“Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the Ecton churchyard, but her father would hardly have paid a carver to engrave so small a stone. If not for the parish register, there would be no record that this Jane Francklyne had ever lived at all. History is what is written and can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by the earth.”

Source : Jill Lepore (2013). “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin”, p.16, Vintage
“As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.”
“Something I've always known about the screen is that if it's anything in the world, it's literal. It's so literal that there's a whole lot you can't do because you're stuck with the literalness of the screen. The stage is not literal.”
“This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity”
“Minds were made for blowing.”
“We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.”

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