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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Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.
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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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I've just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday.
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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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There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of life, and the grave is the ocean of distress
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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 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.
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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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It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
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The designer had probably been going for Turkish Bath but had hit Czech Porn Shoot instead.
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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.
