"A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice."

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Source : "The Harvard Business Review" Magazine, November 1, 1986.

James Callaghan

#Courage Quotes #Leader Quotes #Advice Quotes

“At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.”
“If you start asking how do we make life meaningful and life never ends, then you get into sort of these terrible sort of metaphysical quandaries and it gets really, really bleak looking.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The danger of these collaborations across disciplines is in having too strict of a division of labor - in my case, of getting stuck doing the music. When I make an album, I write music, I write lyrics, I come up with the visual design, etc. I get to do all of that stuff.”

Source : Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.
“Being alone makes us stronger. Thatâ€™s the honest truth. But itâ€™s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.”
“If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psychological distress (you have unpleasant physical and/or psychological withdrawal symptoms) or if you stop and then relapse.”
“If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?”

Source : Ford Madox Ford (2015). “The Good Soldier”, p.6, Booklassic
“If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.”
“The people who know God wellâ€”mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find Godâ€”always meet a lover, not a dictator.”

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