#ability

To be accountable means that we are willing to be responsible to another person for our behavior and it implies a level of submission to another's opinions and viewpoints. ↗

— Wayde Goodall

#leadership #submission #leadership

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability. ↗

— Patrick Lencioni

#leadership #teamwork #trust #leadership

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share. ↗

— Roy L. Smith

#difficulty #greatest #produce #share #unwillingness

And here we see again that we do not decide our own lives. Dieneke, even if we won't see each other again on earth, we will never be sorry for what we did, that we took this stand. ↗

— Diet Eman

#no-regrets #surrender #unpredictability-of-life #diet

It was the ultimate cautionary tale, the moral being Don't fall, as if they were made of glass. In a sense they were--their fragility was irrefutable, medically proven--and yet Emily detested the inevitable rundown of accidents and tragedies, the more fortunate clucking their tongues and counting their blessings, all the while knowing it was just a matter of time. She didn't need to be reminded that she was a single misstep from disaster, especially here, without Henry, surrounded by the survivors of an earlier life. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#aging #vulnerability #age

People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time. ↗

— W. G. Sebald

#before #better #eyes #forget #germany

The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again. ↗

— B. F. Skinner

#affect #again #consequences #occurring #probability

Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you? ↗

— Yann Martel

#old-age #rudeness #study-in-character #age

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do. ↗

— Golda Meir

#inevitability #old-age #age

An aged monk led me to the infirmary. "He's got the place to himself. Once the other invalids learned there was a dragon coming they miraculously got well! The lame could walk and the blind decided they didn't really need to see. He's a panacea. ↗

— Rachel Hartman

#humor #miracles #age