Quotes About Support

For the leader, it no longer means directing and controlling, but guiding, enabling, and removing obstacles.

Maxine remembers what it felt like to be the patient advocate for her dad, doing whatever it took to get him through the healthcare system. Now, she recommits herself to doing whatever it takes to get her teams through the company bureaucracies—the Data Hub team's sense of mission and urgency deserve no less. Relentless optimism, she reminds herself.

Who's been calling you, and what do they want?" I ask, frowning. "Usually it's other it people who are having problems fixing something," he replies, rolling his eyes. "When something goes down, I'm apparently the only person who knows where to go looking.

my job is very simple: listen, do whatever you need me to do to help make you successful, and remove any obstacles in your way.

the leader's role is to create the conditions so their team can discover greatness in their daily work.

Researchers at Google spent years on Project Oxygen and found that psychological safety was one of the most important factors of great teams: where there was confidence that the team would not embarrass, reject, or punish someone for speaking up.

By choosing carefully where and how to start, we are able to experiment and learn in areas of our organization that create value without jeopardizing the rest of the organization. By doing this, we build our base of support, earn the right to expand the use of DevOps in our organization, and gain the recognition and gratitude of an ever-larger constituency.

Everybody doesnt have to like your material - just somebody who can write checks that dont bounce.

The fact is, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people will never be a majority. We are a natural minority within the population. We will never garner enough votes to single-handedly bring about the change we seek. We need heterosexual people to stand with us, vote with us, and be a voice for us where we are not yet welcome.

At other times, agents provocateurs are placed within resistance groups to instigate or even commit acts of violence in order to supportthr charge that the resisters are using violence

This brings us back to what I've been telling you about the importance of finding the right partners. You can't do it all yourself, and neither could any of us. Each of us on our own could only go so far. Together, we would go all the way.

After ten months of no diagnoses or incorrect diagnoses—with her tummy distended as if she were hiding a small balloon under her dress—she finally heard it: "You have stage four ovarian cancer." Gilda grabbed my face in her hands and sobbed, "No more bad news, no more bad news. I don't want any more bad news.

MARGIE: You want to know if she'll survive? She'll survive! Living with someone who doesn't want to be there would do more harm.

That was when I found out that the best way in the world to make yourself feel better when you have hit bottom is to try to get somebody else to feel better. There are certain things in life that are truly worth knowing, and that is one of the big ones.

While "caring about" conveys feelings of concern for one's state of being, "caring for" is active engagement in doing something to positively affect it.

She didn't always have to be the strong one. We can be strong for each other.

Well then. You better make sure your wife can play too. That's my advice to you, Matthew Flanagan

Yours truly, pack animal.

at a societal level there is a surprising shortage of institutions designed to judge what really works and which ideas deserve to be backed with resources. Markets play this role for commercial ideas. But ideas that could be socially valuable often struggle to find support, even when there is strong evidence that they work.

if some cat brings in a tune that makes me want to stab myself in the ear with a pencil, I gotta be all, "Great job, kiddo! Keep at it!

So I went to the kitchen to get a toaster pastry. Because when I am feeling down, a toaster pastry usually helps. Reese and Mom were sitting at the kitchen table.

Never the standout, they are what makes for the continuity, so that after the star either dies (tragedy) or rides off into the sunset (heroic romance, comedy), they are left to clean up and to answer the inevitable final

you get installed by the pragmatists as the leader, and from then on, they conspire to help keep you there.

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE," Dean Rusk warned not long after the Gulf of Tonkin confrontation, "are already beginning to ask what are we supporting." President Johnson agreed. "The weakest link in our armor is public opinion," he said.