Harriet Rubin Quotes

• To see the future you have to travel on the rough edge of experience.

  Harriet Rubin

  Rough Edges, Rough, Edges

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• Do not feel trapped by the facts of your history. Your history is not some set of sacred facts. History is an interpretation, and your history is yours to interpret. To know the history and then reinterpret it gives you additional depth.

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  Giving, Depth, Sacred

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• Freedom is about what you can unleash.

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  "The Fast Pack". Roundtable Interview, www.fastcompany.com. January 31, 1998.

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• Hell is the place for people who did not live their lives according to the best of what was in them.

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  People, Accountability, Hell

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• Love thine enemies for the strengths they call up in us make them the instruments of our destiny.

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  Strength, Destiny, Enemy

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• At some point, we all have to decide how we are going to fail: by not going far enough, or by going too far. The only alternative for the most successful (maybe even the most fulfilled) people is the latter.

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  Successful, People, Alternatives

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• Advice is overrated. Before you learn what others know, you need to learn what YOU know.

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  Advice, Needs, Overrated

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• Women have so much power that even hearing the word power frightens them.

  Harriet Rubin

  Hearing

  Interview with Tom Peters, tompeters.com.

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• To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting boldly is better than acting knowingly.

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  Mean, Leader, Risk

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• Women have always been spies

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  Women, Spy

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