“Urging people to find their passion may lead them to put all their eggs in one basket but then to drop that basket when it becomes difficult to carry.”
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
instead of your expected growth, you will notice one of two patterns of behavior:
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
Those who hope, strive. Those who are disillusioned, accept. In that respect, they are self-fulfilling prophecies.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
Skills are best gauged by what people can do, not what they say or what they’ve done before.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential
Pay attention to people’s track records. People’s personalities are pretty well formed before they come to you, and they’ve been leaving their fingerprints all over the place since childhood; anyone is fairly knowable if you do your homework.