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“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”

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Author:Erich Fromm

“If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Every aspect of your life, whether it's a task or relationship, personal or professional, will be based on love and joy. And when you get right down to it, nothing else really matters.”

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Book:Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

Source: Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.”

“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”

Source: Managing the Non-Profit Organization

“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.”

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Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.”

“Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task well or not. The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert.”

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Book:Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

“Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.”

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Book:Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning