#born

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

#born #charge #control #desire #each

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#born #certain #charismatic #dangerous #either

On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel. Very tall they were, and the Lady no less tall than the Lord; and they were grave and beautiful. They were clad wholly in white; and the hair of the Lady was of deep gold, and the hair of the Lord Celeborn was of silver long and bright; but no sign of age was upon them, unless it were in the depths of their eyes; for these were keen as lances in the starlight, and yet profound, the wells of deep memory. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#celeborn #galadriel #lothlorien #age

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece. ↗

— James Theodore Bent

#charms #greece #infants #newborn #protecting

I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#being #born #chloe #home #hospital

Kids aren't born to be bullies, they're taught to be bullies. ↗

— Matt Bomer

#born to be #bullies #kids #taught

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball. ↗