Words to Live By: Misc. Career Advice Edition

Here are some words of wisdom that have inspired me throughout my career.

Presented without comment, here is a collection of quotes that inspire me and my work. The vast majority are from books I have read/am currently reading!

 It’s not what the world holds for you, it’s what you bring to it.
L.M. Montgomery
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel
Dr. Maya Angelou

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis 


People think of understanding as a state of grace, whereas understanding is an adroitness of the mind reached by effort and self-development.
Anaïs Nin


Be radically sincere. Be in love with the world because the world is this amazing place, the present and past no less than the future and you live in it and your job is to translate it and rephrase it and turn it on its head so that other people can see it the way you do, the way it might be, or almost was, or never could be but still, somehow, is true.
Catherynne M. Valente


Nana always said the foundation of charm was remembering the bullsh-t people wanted you to believe.
Eden Robinson


One of the greatest offerings we can give another person is to witness truly their gifts. When we witness the gifts of another, we are actually witnessing the soul and light in them.
Rebecca Campbell


Experience, if it embitters instead of sweetens, softens, melts, if it it weakens instead of inspires us, if it degrades and debases instead of ennobles and purifies, has then proved stronger than our character and superior to our intellect. We should pass through and above it, enriched and not impoverished by the crucial test and lifelong struggle. 
Anaïs Nin

A version of this was originally posted on my LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/words-live-emily-yakashiro

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