By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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Alain Badiou
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind–As if my Brain had split– I tried to match it– Seam by Seam–But could not make it fit.
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Emily Dickinson
Open wide the mind's cage-door, She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar.
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John Keats
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
If we read the Scriptures, we shall renewed our mind.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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