Alan Hirsch Quotes
Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
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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!'
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I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
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I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.
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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.
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The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts.
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As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?
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The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
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Good government is no substitute for self-government.
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Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.
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The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability
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I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the equivalent of six hundred cars a year off the road in reduced greenhouse gas emissions just in the White House complex.
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Sometimes I manage to get conditions alleviated, often not.
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When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
