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		Similarly, the understanding that one can get more change in a family or organization by working with the motivated members (the strengths) in the system than by focusing on the symptomatic or recalcitrant members totally obliterates the search for answers to the question of how to motivate the unmotivated.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edwin H. Friedman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hans Vestberg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Wayne Dyer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Baba Kalyani 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patricia Reilly Giff 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I like to be left alone when I'm not working. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Wayne Brady 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Malala Yousafzai 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Olga Kurylenko 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. August Richards 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The motivations of kings in British history can generally be reduced to two: the quest for territory and the search for a male heir. No king was secure on his throne until he had a son, and no queen consort was ever really safe without a boy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kate Williams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Like the women in my family, I've found the women in my lab a hard-nosed, ambitious lot who have gone on to be faculty members at top universities. In my own family, it is my father who is prone to bursting into tears. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Venkatraman Ramakrishnan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Acting is in my family. My cousins, my sister, and I always say it's a legacy that should be kept alive. In the future, it's something I really want. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hailey Bieber 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My family is Muslim. But I don't consider myself a very devout Muslim, but a cultural Muslim, whatever that means. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Aasif Mandvi