If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.
Interpretation
Being honest with oneself requires accepting criticism, regardless of negative feedback from others.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-honesty and the courage it takes to accept criticism. It suggests that true self-awareness involves facing uncomfortable truths, even when those truths may provoke negative reactions from others. Embracing criticism is a step towards personal growth and integrity, as it allows individuals to reflect and improve themselves.
In practice
During a leadership seminar, you might use this quote to encourage participants to embrace constructive feedback.
I believe that every leader has a right to implement his own policy. But when I see things that are done that are not right - abuse of power, wrong approaches, wrong strategies, making use of foreign consultants, including those discarded by other countries - I feel that I have to have my say.
It would seem the people who want to preserve the Penans' way of life are condemning them to a life full of diseases and a shorter life span.
There are certain things that we can deal with by following the rules. But at times, we find the rules restrict you from doing the right things. On such occasions, we have to rethink - either you change the rules or break the rules.
In my years, I had the opportunity to observe peoples and countries. I see some countries doing well, others failing, and my analysis of things is that whether you fail or succeed is a function of your value system.
Free press is not absolute. In this country, we say clearly if you start stirring up racial hatred, then we will put a stop to it. We might even close down your paper, because these things can only lead to a lot of riots and bloodshed.
Independence means we enjoy freedom. We are not colonised by people. And we can govern our own country and develop it independently so that our people can live a better life.
People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.
Run my dear,_x000D_ From anything_x000D_ That may not strengthen_x000D_ Your precious budding wings.
We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.
God deliberately chooses weak, suffering and unlikely candidates to get His work done, so that in the end, the glory goes to God and not to the person.
My plea is that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight...I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.
When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought.
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