"Leadership simply begins with the courage to be yourself. So everyone else can be, too."

-- Umair Haque

#Being Yourself Quotes

“Failure is part of discovering the problem you need to be working on. If, as an entrepreneur, you are afraid to fail or to admit the failure of your efforts, then you completely lose any chance at being able to adapt and succeed at finding the problem that needs solving.”
“It's pointless to go against digital because sooner or later you won't be able to do anything else.”
“All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself.”

Source : "I'm a storyteller, that's all" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2002.
“Contrast is the intangible ingredient, the catalyst that makes life exciting. The human mind rejects monotony even to the point of destroying itself in madness, when monotony is forced upon it for too long. ... Contrast gives variety and interest, whether it be in the universe as a whole with its light and darkness, its ceaseless motion and constant change, its creation of worlds and destruction of others ...”
“I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.”
“Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack go under the limbo stick.”
“Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.”
“People can get a bit like, "Oh my God, your life is different than mine." But no, it's not. Everyone's got the same problems. We all get jobs, and we lose them. We have a good time, and we don't have a good time. It's changed in that some people have a certain expectation of what they might find when they meet me, which sucks, because I'm not that thing.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com

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