Lynn Good Quotes
As you think about developing people through their careers, you're looking for that transition from being the smartest person in the room - and caring so much about that - to being the most effective.
Quotes to Explore
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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When it comes to work, there is a fear factor around meritocracy. People are afraid of being openly judged. However, when you know what you are being measured against, it's empowering.
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Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.
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As you think about developing people through their careers, you're looking for that transition from being the smartest person in the room - and caring so much about that - to being the most effective.
