“Belief in oneself is a crucial quality of leadership, because 'a house divided against itself cannot stand.' A leader who fluctuates back and forth sends a very wavery signal. Like the soprano who can shatter glass by finding that high note and holding it, a leader who can hold that high note, without wavering, can shatter walls.” HouseBeliefLeadershipQualityLeaderWallFindingsNotesGlassesOneselfDividedCrucialSignalsBack And ForthSopranosWaveringHigh NotesHouse Divided Book:Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership Source: Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership
“In general, great companies prefer to grow organically, as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.” GrowsCompanyShareStreetsWallFindingsLikesCompetitorsGreat Company Author:Alex Berenson
“...I think finding that room to make pictures that don't jump off the wall as, or detonate as dramatic, either in lighting or in form or in composition or in subject matter, but more ordinary, that's the challenge.” ThinkingMatterFormChallengesRoomsSubjectsWallFindingsOrdinaryDramaticCompositionLightingSubject MatterOff The Wall Author:Larry Sultan
“I think there simply comes a point at which you're beating your head against the wall with revision, when you're making something different but not better. For me, revision usually has more to do with making the language prettier, finding clearer images, using more active verbs.” ThinkingDifferentLanguageWallFindingsActiveVerbsRevision Author:Mary J. Miller
“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?” IfsThinkingMenShouldTryingStoriesHomeUsedAcceptingWallFindingsFunctionPrisonPityToneFairyTopicsScornEscapismScornedFairy StoriesJailerPrison WallsFantasy StoriesFiction Stories Author:J. R. R. Tolkien
“It's surprisingly nice out here, peaceful and pretty-strange to be standing in the middle of a little garden while enclosed by the massive stone walls of the prison, like being at the exact center of a hurricane, and finding peace and silence in the middle of so much shrieking damage.” LittlesSilenceNiceMiddleStrangeWallFindingsGardenStandingStonesPrisonPeacefulDamageMassiveHurricanesFinding PeaceStone Walls Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem