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Many in business feel they have to live up to a machismo archetype of the big-swinging-dick business leader


Jon Miller

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JON BELLION I've got a great life. I'm in love, I have a happy, wonderful, beautiful time with my marria...
JON ANDERSON Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own ...
JON LANDAU People think bigger movies are bad, and that's just not true - there's bad big films, and th...
JON FAVREAU God’s will for you is to make you more like Jesus. Christlikeness is your target, your goal, your ...
JON MORRISON If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?
JON MCGREGOR At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a wo...
JON KRAKAUER It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to...
JON KRAKAUER The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change ev...
JON KRAKAUER According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a su...
JON KRAKAUER It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in whi...
JON KRAKAUER Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic...
JON KRAKAUER On July 2, McCandless finished reading Tolstoy's "Family Happiness", having marked several passages ...
JON KRAKAUER I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty ...
JON KRAKAUER He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wi...
JON KRAKAUER Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each ot...
JON KRAKAUER The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know m...
JON KRAKAUER That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do.
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