Steven Schlafman
@schlaf
Steven Schlafman
"We can see other people's behaviour, but not their experience." — R. D. Laing
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Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help... See more
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“As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.” —Joseph Campbell
quotes and Risk taking
“Never in my whole life before did I know how much more difficult it is to make business decisions myself than merely advising others what to do in their businesses, without having to take the final responsibility myself.”
~James McKinsey, 1937
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
— Howard Thurman
— Howard Thurman
Starlight Leadership
“ We build our own prisons and serve as our own jailkeepers… but clearly our parents and the society at large have a hand in building our prisons. They create roles for us — and self-images — that hold us captive for a long time. The individual intent on self-renewal will have to deal with ghosts of the past — the memory of earlier failures, the
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