A Quote by Abba Eban
You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective.
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.
An effective lighting design is like a beautiful painting. Your medium is bringing someone to an emotional state he or she would not achieve at that moment without your art. This does not and can not happen by accident.
In adversity, there is opportunity. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
You see Bill Clinton, and you say: Oh, this guy cares about me. Hillary Clinton isn't the same way. You see her, and you don't necessarily have that view. She's trying to achieve the same thing without the voice and the body language, and she's having a harder time doing it. But when she's effective, that's what she's effective at.
If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
In order to settle down in the quiet of our own being we must learn to be detached from the results of our own activity. We must be content to live without watching ourselves live, to work with expecting immediate reward, to love without an instant satisfaction, and to exist without any special recognition. It is only when we are detached from ourselves that we can be at peace with ourselves.
Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
It stuns me how effective children can be in their messaging, and I believe that every child should enjoy that basic right to become an adult. Getting rid of childhood cancers is one effective way to reach that goal.
A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.
Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is stalking him and won't give him time to cling to anything so he tries, without craving, all of everything.
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do but to achieve what they want to achieve.
Surrendering means cleansing yourself completely, getting completely detached. Detachment is the only way you can rise.
Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way.
Video marketing is the most effective way for you to get someone's attention and engage them for a substantial period of time. Keeping someone engaged is the best and quickest way to gain their trust. Gaining trust is the only way to convert your audience into happy, long-term clients/customers/subscribers.
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