"It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away"

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Source : "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 89,

Harold Geneen

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“Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.”
“I don't know why I'm drawn to anti-heroes, but I certainly am.”
“The European Union should not be prescribing an identity. We know what that's like, when a government tells its people how it should look; what it should be doing. That's the first step towards totalitarianism.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in a tornado's aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated colors, wreckage all around, and myself, dazed and limping.”
“I guess I can't live without Netflix because I would have nothing to do. All I do is sit home and watch movies.”
“A war doesnâ€™t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back. And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty soon all thatâ€™s left is the brute, the creature that weâ€”you and I and others like usâ€”have brought up from the slime.”
“If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”

Source : Robin Jones Gunn (2009). “Sierra Jensen Collection”, p.329, Multnomah
“Let's make something happen to this world.”

Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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