Better
(page 6)
Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.
Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.
We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children.
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better — because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.
Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.
Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.
I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
Turkeys know their names, come when you call, and are totally affectionate. They're better than teenagers.
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in their cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.
The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.
Loading ...