“People begin to make the biggest changes when they hurt enough to have to.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
The Comeback Kid (2015)
“People begin to make the biggest changes when they hurt enough to have to.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“Location is not, as the estate agents say, everything. We must also consider our place in history.”
John D. Barrow (1952–2020) British scientist
The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos (2011), ch. 2, p. 23
Mark Rathbun (1957) American whistleblower
The New York Times, The New York Times Company, Defectors Say Church of Scientology Hides Abuse, Laurie Goodstein, March 6, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/us/07scientology.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all,
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Address to the International Committee for the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. (17 September 1990)
Post-presidency (1989–2004)
George Jean Nathan (1882–1958) American drama critic and magazine editor
Source: Testament of a Critic (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931), p. 16
Bertie Ahern (1951) Irish politician, 10th Taoiseach of Ireland
Speaking on the collapse of Lehman Brothers Bank. Lehmans world presence http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1010/1224256328159.html (Subscription required). The Year in Quotes http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6968426.ece (Subscription required)
“…the biggest mistake people make is not acknowledging fear and uncertainty.”
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
New York Times, "Tiptoeing Out of One’s Comfort Zone (and of Course, Back In)"- Interview) http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/your-money/12shortcuts.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Bren%C3%A9%20Brown&st=cse, February 11, 2011.
“Our most valuable real estate is our character”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the Canadian Club in Toronto (6 August 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), p. 79.
1927
Context: I may confess to men here, of a stock so largely English, that our English intelligence is sometimes apt to be despised by nations that think they are quicker-witted than we are. Our most valuable real estate is our character— its steadiness, its reliability, its personal integrity, its capacity for toleration and for a quiet, humorous boredom with things. The general strike in England, which was not without its alarming aspects, illustrated all these qualities in our people.