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 had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.
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I think my father is probably the best coach ever because, if we talk about numbers, he's got a lot and he's only had two players.
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same day.... Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour, and there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Mississippi, as predicted years ago.
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In order to promote your own career, you need to promote the careers of others.
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Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.
