Alan Hirsch Quotes

Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

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• I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Best
  • Son
  • Doing

• Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Everything
  • Against

• Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!'

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Music
  • High

• I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Same
  • Try
  • Humble

• Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Important
  • Movement
  • Leaders

• I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Time
  • Career

• I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Believe
  • Water
  • Sweet

• I've just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Ideas
  • Someday
  • Calmness

• The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Adventure
  • Word
  • Overused

• As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.

  

  Allan Carl Newman
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• I try to balance it out on the whole. Being a mum is always the priority. Next, it's taking care of yourself. Right now, I get to only work two days a week - it's a dream. I can't imagine how hard it is for mothers who work 40 hours a week.

  

  Marcia Cross
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Balance

• The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap of their natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming time can come; but their lives have not been wasted.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Spring
  • Blossomed
  • Aster

• In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you're not a friend to yourself, there's no way you're gonna have any friends.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Way
  • Friend
  • In Order

• In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Truth
  • Justice

• How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Books
  • Passions
  • Thinker

• The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.

  

  William Osler
  • Cold
  • Common
  • Contempt

• Good government is no substitute for self-government.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Government
  • Substitute
  • Self-government

• It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Together
  • Years
  • Five

• There are some quite tricky challenges facing everybody working in Crimea and I shall be engaging with various government people.

  

  David Nabarro
  • People
  • Government
  • Challenges

• Our lives were limitless and unknowable, not perfect, but ours.

  

  Brenna Yovanoff
  • Limitless
  • Not Per

• Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. Throw it in the garbage and it springs up clean. Try to root it out and it only flourishes. Love is a weed, a dandelion that you poison from your heart. The taproots wait. The seeds blow off, ticklish, into a part of the yard you didn't spray. And one day, though you worked, though you prodded out each spiky leaf, you lift your eyes and dozens of fat golden faces bob in the grass.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Eyes

• A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.

  

  Elaine de Kooning
  • Painting
  • Image
  • Verb

• Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

  

  Alan Hirsch
  • Leaders
  • Manage
  • Distress