3 Quotes & Sayings By Robert E Dunn

Robert E. Dunn, Ph.D., is a noted author, consultant, and educator whose work has appeared in numerous publications including Management Today, Financial World, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Human Resource Executive. He is the author of seven books including his most recent book The Habits of Highly Effective Executives (John Wiley & Sons, 2005). Dr Read more

Dunn has presented his work at major conferences including the Harvard Business School Centennial Symposium. He is an acknowledged expert on executive leadership and personal growth.

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There is a little furnace within every heart that burns pain. It is formed by a masonry of scars as tick by tick the tireless mechanics of life strip the innocence bestowed upon us at birth. There are some in whom life builds the furnace small and controllable, a passionate heat to burn off the losses, the harsh words and petty disappointments, leaving us cleaner for it. There are others. There are those whose innocence is assaulted early and with such brutality, that it goes beyond all the boundaries of deities and angels to stray into the world of unfettered evil. They build their furnaces differently. Robert E. Dunn
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My mother used to say not sleeping was the sign of a guilty mind. It could have been. There was a lot in my mind to feel guilty about. When you’re drunk and trying to sleep, your thoughts are visited by the ghosts of those deeds whose heat still glows hottest in your personal darkness. Our actions burn much longer than the moments in which they occur. And drunks like me, we hide from the glow of the embers by fueling other fires and hiding within the flames. Robert E. Dunn