The world is a vampire/Sent to drain/Secret destroyers/Hold you up to the flames. He was ultimately successful and is probably enjoying his well-deserved retirement fishing in the Caribbean. The 'them' in his case was his team and the many people trying to change a then shrinking if not sinking ship. One of my mentors once said that a leader's primary responsibility was, like the tagline from that old deodorant commercial, to 'Never let them see you sweat.' He had turned around a lagging business with an uplift of pragmatic optimism, an attention to profit and loss statements commensurate with his bean counter past, and a steely confidence in being able to play the least worst hand dealt to him as if he had been dealt a Powerball-like winning combination. Acting out in anger or frustration irrational and haphazard behaviors contempt, maybe even disregard for your peers: Determining what grace is not is often easier than articulating what grace is. I have a difficult time pinning down a good secular definition of grace and to paraphrase Justice Potter, you often just know you're in the presence of grace when you see it. Lyrics from Queen's Under Pressure.Īs time passes though I think the more interesting turn in that phrase is the word grace. Pressure, putting down on me/pressing down on you, no man ask for/Under pressure.

Keeping your wits about you when the world falls apart around you getting up from the mat after getting knocked down draining a stiff drink when it's all said and done: I often wonder what Hemingway's Twitter feed would have looked like. Courage was, after all, a large slice of Hemingway's brand, a marketed campaign he supplemented with his safari hunts, wartime narratives, and pugilistic banter with his peers.

When I first heard the quote, I was drawn more to the word courage. The line, 'Courage is grace under pressure,' is often attributed to Ernest Hemingway. Exactly what do you mean by 'guts'? I mean, Ernest Hemingway said, 'grace under pressure.' - From Dorthy Parker's New Yorker profile of Ernest Hemingway. 'Now just a minute,' somebody said, for it was one of those argumentative evenings.

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