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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. -- Tom Peters
Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator. -- Glenn Hughes
Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate. -- Marissa Mayer
Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. -- Virginia Satir
If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents. -- Jane Fonda
Nurturing self-confidence is a daily endeavour. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Nurturing has the ability to transform people's lives. -- John C. Maxwell
Nurturing a feeling makes it proliferate. Choose wisely. Joy, kindness, love, & caring will illuminate your life. -- Amy Leigh Mercree
Nurturing requires organization, patience, love, and work. Helping growth occur through nurturing is truly a powerful and influential role bestowed on women -- Julie B. Beck
Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nurturing and fulfilling, Marsala is a natural fit for the kitchen and dining room â?? making it ideal for tabletop, small appliances, and linens throughout the home, -- Leatrice Eiseman
Nurturing a child's sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child's life. -- Wess Stafford
Parenting goes beyond providing foods, shelter, clothing, and other basic necessities. Nurturing a child to travel in the direction of positive enlightenment, is arguably the greatest thing that you could do for a child. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Nurturing and cherishing creation is a command God gives not only at the beginning of history, but to each of us. It is part of his plan; it means causing the world to grow responsibly, transforming it so that it may be a garden, a habitable place for everyone. -- Pope Francis
LoveEmbracing Tao, you become embraced.Supple, breathing gently, you become reborn.Clearing your vision, you become clear.Nurturing your beloved, you become impartial.Opening your heart, you become accepted.Accepting the World, you embrace Tao.Bearing and nurturing,Creating but not owning,Giving without demanding,Controlling without authority,This is love. -- Lao Tzu
There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect. -- Julia Cameron
Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing... the secret of having it all is loving it all. -- Joyce Brothers
Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human. -- Joshua Foer
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent. -- Ralph Fiennes
I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation. -- L. Tom Perry
Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman. -- Maya Angelou
Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result. -- Joe Torre
Yoga is your direct intimacy with the nurturing power of Life. It is the practical means adapted to personal needs, age, health and all cultures. -- Mark Whitwell
I am proud to be a woman. I am sensual, nurturing and compassionate woman. I am a woman of my word and I love who I am. -- Miranda Kerr
It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement. -- Deepak Chopra
The only people who can fix Africa are talented young Africans. By unlocking and nurturing their creative potential, we can create a step change in Africa's future. -- Neil Turok
We all have the seeds of love in us.We can develop this wonderful source of energy, nurturing the unconditional love that does not expect anything in return. -- Nhat Hanh
Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support. -- Mario Batali
I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for. -- Deepak Chopra
If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have. -- Jeffrey Kluger
The first Victoria's Secret model I ever met was Adriana Lima, and she was so nice to me. She was very generous and very nurturing. She made sure people talked to me! -- Lily Aldridge
Feminine power is silent, dark, mysterious, healing, nurturing. A woman can walk into a room and control it. She doesn't even have to open her mouth if she knows where her power is. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them. -- Erma Bombeck
For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma. -- Brad Henry
There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring. -- Tori Amos
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up. -- Alice Walker
The natural power of breastfeeding is one of the greatest wonders of the world. It is about real love. It is about caring and celebrating the wondrous joy of nurturing a new life. It is about enjoying being a woman. -- Anwar Fazal
Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature. -- Dalai Lama
Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken. -- Akio Toyoda
My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries. -- Yo-Yo Ma
As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of one. Perhaps more important, children will grow up thinking that only women can be loving and nurturing, and men cannot. -- Gloria Steinem
I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows. -- Guy Laliberte
Love is a command, not just a feeling. Somehow, in the romantic world of music and theater we have made love to be what it is not. We have so mixed it with beauty and charm and sensuality and contact that we have robbed it of its higher call of cherishing and nurturing. -- Ravi Zacharias
My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path. -- Tara Brach
What a denial of our humanity that at the centers of power, where decisions are made, there is no room for nurturing, for love, and children. There is more to life than the 'inhuman' work place. It is terrible that many men do not know that: it is a tragedy if women follow them. -- Dora Russell
A stable and nurturing childhood is essential for the healthy psycho-emotional and spiritual development of a human being. While we may understand what is supposed to happen to us physically, we must begin to better understand what happens to children mentally, emotionally and spiritually as a result of the families into which they are born. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m. -- Ellen DeGeneres
The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting. -- Caleb Deschanel
It is a holy blessing to be born with the exquisite qualities of a daughter of God. Women of God, both old and young, are spiritual and sensitive, tender and gentle. They have a kind, nurturing nature. This is your inheritance. Never belittle the gifts God has given to you. Develop the divinity that is within you. -- Margaret D. Nadauld
I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial. -- Yo-Yo Ma
Your purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are, to know and love yourself at the deepest level and to guide yourself back home when you lose your way. That's it. Everything else is your burning passion, your inspired mission, your job, your love-fueled hobby, etc. Those things are powerful and essential, but they're not your purpose. Your purpose is much bigger than that. -- Kris Carr
True biblical love is sacrificing, purifying, nurturing, and enduring. -- Elizabeth George
Sorry. An overdeveloped nurturing instinct comes with being a healer. -- Maria V. Snyder
We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course -- Jenny Uglow
No matter what else they're doing, women are also always nurturing. -- Cokie Roberts
The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies in nurturing ourselves. -- Julia Cameron
The best organizations regard the nurturing of their employees as a spiritual mandate. -- Nancy Pearcey
Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe. -- Bernice Johnson Reagon
Confidence takes constant nurturing, like a bed, it must be remade every day. -- M.I.A.
Success, wealth, good health and nurturing relationships are by-products of happiness, not the cause. -- Deepak Chopra
If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway? -- Sandra Scofield
Remember that nurturing yourself is as important (if not more so) as nurturing others. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
I love being nurturing and caring because I love to see other people happy. -- Jennifer Hudson
Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression. -- Harold H. Bloomfield
You don't want your marriage to be sustainable. You want to be evolving, nurturing, learning. -- Mitchell Joachim
The goal is to learn to be nurturing with yourself so you can feel free. -- Deborah Day
In my own upbringing, my family lacked the ability to provide a stable, nurturing environment. -- Ronnie Musgrove
Focus on nurturing your healthy relationships so that they are even more loving and fulfilling. -- Deepak Chopra
If Iraq's weapons are weapons of mass destruction, surely ours are weapons of growth and nurturing. -- Greg Proops
Eventually you can get into the nuts and bolts of reality: nurturing, caring, and getting along. -- Jody Watley
Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom? -- Cynthia Ozick
My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. -- Jeff Bridges
There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential or even enthusiasm. -- Deepak Chopra
The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate. -- Jeffrey Wright
Finding people in your life as sounding boards who can be neutral and clear is worth nurturing. -- Tori Amos
Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing. -- Elizabeth George
I've never believed that women have some special, essentialist qualities, or were more nurturing, cooperative, and morally superior. -- Susan Faludi
Food = joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel.... Food = everything you can imagine. -- Susan Powter
Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper. -- Rachael Bermingham
I finally stop feeding my mind with toxic thoughts and started nurturing my heart and soul with love instead. -- Mareez Reyes
Food and love are all intertwined at our core level. It can be a very nurturing, wonderful, loving thing. -- Jami Attenberg
The Earth is a living, breathing entity. Without ongoing care and nurturing, there will be consequences too big to ignore. -- David Holmgren
Leaders do not conform; they reform. If you conform, you are nurturing mediocrity. If you reform, you are breeding change. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Drama school was a lifeline for me, it saved me. I found it very nurturing - I just clung on. -- Lily James
True collaborative, nurturing, and safe power is a combining of forces that can only happen on a pretty small scale. -- Peter Buffett
For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung. -- Homer
The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever. -- Malcolm McDowell
I'm a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I'm just interested in things remaining fresh. -- Jacqueline Bisset
The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success. -- A. Scott Berg
I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. -- M. Scott Peck
Cher is really down-to-earth, very nurturing, incredibly funny and fun, a great storyteller, and creates a great environment on the set. -- Steve Antin
Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes. -- Erica Jong
Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents' goal was to make all their children self-sufficient. -- Bryce Dallas Howard
This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing. -- Tilda Swinton
Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make. -- Paul Berg
Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have. -- Sakyong Mipham
Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over. -- Peter Buffett
I'm doing something now where I'm going to have to learn so much and that takes time nurturing, those kinds of relationships. -- Cathy Freeman
I learned from the git-go in the joint to get in touch with the soft, nurturing side of myself, the feminine side. -- Wesley Strick
Self-esteem is like a difficult-to-cultivate flower. It requires frequent nurturing that occurs when you keep your word and follow through on your promises. -- Derrick Bell
I clung to that spark of hope, nurturing it into a small flame that chased some of the shadows in my heart away. -- Richelle Mead
My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation. -- Jeff Bridges
I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be. -- Sidney Poitier
No society will long survive without mothers who care for their young and provide that nurturing care so essential for their normal development. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert. -- Demetri Martin
I will not accept your guidance and critique unless you are supportive and nurturing. On the other hand, you need to be continually demanding. -- David Maister
Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator." -- Glenn Hughes
Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing. -- Patricia MacLachlan
Few of us will reach our potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers who bear with us. -- Sheri L. Dew
Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal. -- Robert Genn
Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful. -- Jeff Myers
Everywhere, people are beginning to question masculine notions of control, aggression and black-and-white thinking - and instead are favoring more empathetic, nurturing and collaborative approaches. -- John Gerzema
I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing. -- Minnie Driver
Testimony requires the nurturing by the prayer of faith, the hungering for the word of God in the scriptures, and the obedience to the truth. -- Henry B. Eyring
Daughters of God know that it is the nurturing nature of women that can bring everlasting blessings, and they live to cultivate this divine attribute. -- Margaret D. Nadauld
My home is my castle, and I spend a lot of time nurturing it, redecorating - moving this and adjusting that, adding flowers and candles. -- Evangeline Lilly
I think I'm a very very nice director. Very supportive, very nurturing. I definitely try to challenge my actors but I think I'm very supportive. -- David Schwimmer
Cooking is an important part of a good, stable family life. I like to get the family together; there's a huge nurturing element in it. -- Jade Jagger

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