"It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board."

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Source : Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.83, John Wiley & Sons

Patrick Lencioni

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“I was still blind , but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.”
“His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement - all argue his fundamental integrity. To suppose Muhammad an impostor raises more problems than it solves. Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad.”

Source : "Mohammad at Mecca". Book by William Montgomery Watt, p. 52, 1953.
“Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.”
“If you have to be right, you put yourself in a hedged lane, but once you experience the power of not having to be right, you will feel like you are walking across open fields, the perspective wide and your feet free to take any turn.”

Source : John Naisbitt (2006). “Mind Set!: Reset Your Thinking and See the Future”, HarperBusiness
“It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Jonathan Franzen, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“You aim comedy up. If comedy is aimed down, you're a jerk. You laugh at the powerful as a way of bringing them down to your level or bring yourself up to theirs. Donald Trump doesn't actually laugh. I've never seen him do anything other than smirking. He doesn't have a sense of humour. He's just mean.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“...I also know - and this won't alter the course of history or your personal view of me - that you will die with a clenched fist and a tense jaw, the epitome of hatred and struggle, because you are not a symbol (some inanimate example) but a genuine member of the society to be destroyed; the spirit of the beehive speaks through your mouth and motivates your actions. You are as useful as I am, but you are not aware of how useful your contribution is to the society that sacrifices you.”
“You must be willing to examine and explore your dark side. You must acknowledge how bad you can be and how horribly unloving you can behave. When you know how deep and dark your dark side is, it helps you stand a little taller in the light.”

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