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“we assume that quiet and loud people have roughly the same number of good (and bad) ideas, then we should worry if the louder and more forceful people always carry the day. This would mean that an awful lot of bad ideas prevail while good ones get squashed.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“There is a story in your data. But your tools don’t know what that story is. That’s where it takes you—the analyst or communicator of the information—to bring that story visually and contextually to life.”
― Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals

“Fear is excitement without the breath.” Here’s what this intriguing statement means: the very same mechanisms that produce excitement also produce fear, and any fear can be transformed into excitement by breathing fully with it.”
― Gay Hendricks, The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

“Fear is just excitement without breath.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power