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“I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“Do not let the future disturb you, for you will arrive there, if you arrive, with the same reason you now apply to the present.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“In everything that you do, pause and ask yourself if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives you of this.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Immature strategy is the cause of grief".”
― Musashi Miyamoto, The Book of Five Rings

“The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“there’s no word in the Tibetan language for “creativity” or “being creative.” The closest translation is “natural.”
― Tom Kelley, Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All

“New opportunities for innovation open up when you start the creative problem-solving process with empathy toward your target audience—whether”
― Tom Kelley, Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All

“Friedrich Nietzsche said, “All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”
― Tom Kelley, Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All

“Mark Twain said a century ago, “It’s not what you don’t know that gets you into trouble, it’s what you know for sure that ain’t so.”
― Tom Kelley, Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All

“Great groups ship. “They are places of action, not think tanks or retreat centers devoted solely to the generation of ideas.” Warren characterized the successful collaborations he studied as “dreams with deadlines.”
― Tom Kelley, Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All

“Great groups believe they are on a mission from God. Beyond mere financial success, they genuinely believe they will make the world a better place.”
― Tom Kelley, Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All

“Great groups are more optimistic than realistic. They believe they can do what no one else has done before. “And the optimists, even when their good cheer is unwarranted, accomplish more,” says Warren.”
― Tom Kelley, Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All

“I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to fit? If you have any enterprise before you, try it in your own clothes.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“If you want to become a great leader, you need to prepare yourself to become a great leader, and the best way to do that is to study great leaders.”
― Bo Schembechler, Bo's Lasting Lessons: The Legendary Coach Teaches the Timeless Fundamentals of Leadership

“If you want to be a truly great leader, you’ll develop other great leaders below you.”
― Bo Schembechler, Bo's Lasting Lessons: The Legendary Coach Teaches the Timeless Fundamentals of Leadership

“To sum it all up, you can’t find Mobilizers on an org chart. They’re not the VP of this or the senior director of that. Role and title don’t matter. They’re individuals who mobilize irrespective of the org chart, not because of it.”
― Brent Adamson, The Challenger Customer: Selling to the Hidden Influencer Who Can Multiply Your Results

“Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.”
― Jonathan Rieder, Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation

“Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.”
― Tyler Knott Gregson

“We each have to own responsibility for the outcome, and take on as much of the burden as we can. We each have to look for problems and then solve them, and look for opportunities to take advantage of. We have to treat the challenges of our teammates and coworkers as our challenges, too, and step in to help wherever we are able to. The entire mission belongs to all of us.”
― Mike Hayes, Never Enough: A Navy SEAL Commander on Living a Life of Excellence, Agility, and Meaning

“31Gray hair is a crown of glory;q it is gained by a life that is just.”
― Anonymous, The Catholic Study Bible

“But in counseling us and others that he was himself but a humble student both of humanity and of its latest and potentially final creation, he impressed upon us that the greatest danger posed by AI would be for us to declare too early, or too completely, that we understand it.”
― Henry A. Kissinger, Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit

“In brief, models trained via machine learning allow humans to know new things (the models’ outputs) but not to understand how the discoveries were made (the models’ internal processes).”
― Henry A. Kissinger, Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit

“We are trying to build something modeled on the brain—and superior to the brain—while still not fully understanding the brain itself.”
― Henry A. Kissinger, Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit

“As Tolstoy writes, “If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life itself is destroyed.”14”
― Henry A. Kissinger, Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit

“Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen”:”
― Pope John Paul II, Catechism of the Catholic Church

“St. Teresa of Jesus wonderfully expresses this trust: Let nothing trouble you / Let nothing frighten you Everything passes / God never changes Patience / Obtains all 2830 Whoever has God / Wants for nothing 1723 God alone is enough.52”
― Pope John Paul II, Catechism of the Catholic Church

“Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”62”
― Pope John Paul II, Catechism of the Catholic Church