{"author":"Awdhesh Singh","author_id":"Awdhesh+Singh","total_quotes":46,"quotes":[{"text":"It is never easy for any leader to choose between differentiation and equality. You are condemned either way. When you treat everyone equally, you are considered just by majority as equality benefits below average people and they seem to always be in majority. At the same time, you are also condemned because you can’t produce results with people having a crab mentality. However, if you choose to reward the excellence and punish the non-performer, you achieve the desired results but get condemned for being unfair, unjust, cruel and Darwinian.","author":"Awdhesh Singh","tags":["leader","leaders","leadership"],"id":6263,"author_id":"Awdhesh+Singh"},{"text":"Hatred is the price that society extracts from its leaders for the honour, power and wealth it bestows unto them.","author":"Awdhesh Singh","tags":["hatred","leadedr","leadership"],"id":8231,"author_id":"Awdhesh+Singh"},{"text":"All great leaders are known to have faith. They first develop faith in themselves, which means they connect their body, mind and intellect with their soul. They also connect their soul with the Universal Soul where all souls of the world are connected with each other. Leadership is thus a spiritual quality that comes from faith and trust.","author":"Awdhesh Singh","tags":["leaders","leadership","spiritual"],"id":13656,"author_id":"Awdhesh+Singh"},{"text":"Most people hate successful people for their small little faults rather than appreciating them for their great strengths.","author":"Awdhesh Singh","tags":["leadershhip","successful"],"id":22067,"author_id":"Awdhesh+Singh"},{"text":"A wise man thus seeks not a straight path, but one that is the shortest or most convenient. The idea is to reach your goal comfortably and quickly rather than wasting your time in finding ‘Which is the straightest path?","author":"Awdhesh Singh","tags":["honesty","wisdom","wise"],"id":22337,"author_id":"Awdhesh+Singh"},{"text":"You do not become a leader because people follow you. Rather, people tend to follow you because you have leadership qualities. The journey of leadership often starts alone.","author":"Awdhesh Singh","tags":["follower","leader","leadership"],"id":45089,"author_id":"Awdhesh+Singh"},{"text":"People falling in love for one reason may fall out of love due to another reason. However, if faith or trust is the basis of love, it does not break easily. Often people use all their reasoning to understand each other and even live together for years to satisfy themselves that they are in love. However, marriages based on such logical love, the love based on reason, do not last long. Quite to the contrary, marriages where the partners do not even know each other, survive for life—being based on mutual trust and faith.","author":"Awdhesh Singh","tags":["faith","love","marriage","reason"],"id":45956,"author_id":"Awdhesh+Singh"},{"text":"Even if you do nothing, say nothing and be nothing, there will still be many who will criticize you. It is much better to be criticized for success than be condemned for failures because success rids you of the many miseries of life.","author":"Awdhesh Singh","tags":["criticism","leadership","success"],"id":49674,"author_id":"Awdhesh+Singh"},{"text":"Academically brilliant persons usually make excellent managers and bureaucrats as they can efficiently implement the vision of the government or world leaders by following the prescribed methods. However, they may prove to be poor leaders, for they may not have taken the pain to understand the world on their own, and hence, cannot contribute any new thought or line of action to tackle new problems.","author":"Awdhesh Singh","tags":["leaders","leadership","managers"],"id":63927,"author_id":"Awdhesh+Singh"},{"text":"As per the Indian philosophy of the Upanishads, the source of evil is one’s ego-sense –Ahankara—which differentiates oneself from the other selves. A person, who visualizes himself independent of others, tries to guard or please himself at the cost of others. Evil is thus the tendency of a person to live a life that is not ‘in harmony’ with the rest of the world, but ‘in opposition’ to it or at best ‘in indifference’ to it. The good is to discover the unity in the diversity of ‘all selves’ and beings. Once unity in diversity is realized, every being becomes our own self and good deeds follow automatically.","author":"Awdhesh Singh","tags":["ahamkara","evil","good","upanishads"],"id":71984,"author_id":"Awdhesh+Singh"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":46,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}