Top 100 Rath Quotes
#1. Dave Rath is recovering. A month ago he had hip pocket replacement surgery.
Andy Kindler
#3. Howard Dean announced today he will campaign in seven states. The states are Rage, Frenzy, Fury, Rath, Fever, Agitation, and Delirium. Yeeeeaaaah!
Jay Leno
#4. I'm going to join them, he said. And he did. When Sveva fled, Rath stayed and fought with the rebels.
And died with them, right there at the toes of the mountains.
And was dragged with them into a big pile.
And burned
Laini Taylor
#5. Go maire tu' I bhfad agus rath!
'Live long and prosper'.
Diane Duane
#7. Rune: "They're getting away!"
Thatz: "Our Dragon Knights honor is at stake! Let's get 'em!"
Rath: "'Dragon Knights honor'? Really?
Mineko Ohkami
#8. Leaders need to be thinking constantly about what they're doing to create a basic sense of security and stability throughout an organization.
Tom Rath
#10. What works for one person's needs is almost always very different from the next.
Tom Rath
#11. Perhaps the ultimate test of a leader is not what you are able to do in the here and now - but instead what continues to grow long after you're gone
Tom Rath
#12. Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs.
Tom Rath
#13. When we're able to put most of our energy into developing our natural talents, extraordinary room for growth exists. So, a revision to the "You-can-be-anything-you-want-to-be" maxim might be more accurate: You cannot be anything you want to be - but you can be a lot more of who you already are.
Tom Rath
#15. The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.
Tom Rath
#16. I've seen people be effective, even among local teams, by offering something that improves wellbeing in a small way - people who get passionate about smart investment strategies and managing finances for retirement, for example.
Tom Rath
#17. If you focus on people's weaknesses, they lose confidence.
Tom Rath
#18. Doing for others may be the only way to create lasting well-being.
Tom Rath
#19. When top scientists and psychologists talk about what's important to our overall wellbeing and how satisfied we are with our lives, the only thing that they all agree on is that social relationships are probably the single best predictor of our overall happiness.
Tom Rath
#20. High school was hard for me. I tried really hard to fit in and said the things I thought people wanted to hear. But I was unsure of myself. I was self-conscious, and I didn't really know my place or where I fit in.
Meaghan Rath
#21. Although individuals need not be well-rounded, teams should be.
Tom Rath
#22. I have started forcing myself to substitute thinking "I'm busy" with "I need to do a better job managing my time.
Tom Rath
#23. I love the action stuff. Honestly, I like sci-fi and everything supernatural.
Meaghan Rath
#24. Washington is not a city that takes great pride in being a healthy place, necessarily. Now, I have no data. That's just my own observation.
Tom Rath
#25. If you want to improve your life and the lives of those around you, you must take action.
Tom Rath
#26. My dream role would be to play a femme fatale in a Quentin Tarantino movie.
Meaghan Rath
#27. Executives must place a priority on wellbeing if they want to attract the right people, keep their best people, and drive their company's financial performance.
Tom Rath
#28. Figure out what you really love doing and use your strengths on a daily basis.
Tom Rath
#29. I think trust is primarily built through relationships, and it's important because it's the foundational currency that a leader has with his team or his followers.
Tom Rath
#30. Every hour you spend on your rear end ... saps your energy and ruins your health.
Tom Rath
#31. People who say they have a best friend at work are seven times as likely to be engaged in what they're doing. And if they don't have a best friend at work, the odds of being engaged are just 1 in 12.
Tom Rath
#32. And it is likely that Rudy had teammates for whom the inverse was true - they were a 5 on talent and just a 2 on time invested, which is clearly a waste of talent.
Tom Rath
#33. I am so attracted to ambition and drive and talent. If a man loves something and can put his heart into it, I am instantly into him. I like a strong man who can be in control and make decisions but who is sensitive and attentive. That is the perfect combination.
Meaghan Rath
#34. The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.
Tom Rath
#35. When you ask people what affects their wellbeing most, they think of health and wealth.
Tom Rath
#36. Every human being has talents that are just waiting to be uncovered.
Tom Rath
#37. At a very basic level, people need to know that there is constancy in their jobs and, more broadly, in where the organization is headed.
Tom Rath
#38. If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.
Tom Rath
#39. When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week.
Tom Rath
#40. Across the board, having the opportunity to develop our strengths is more important to our success than our role, our title, or even our pay.
Tom Rath
#41. I've spoken with a few employers who have moved away from what has to be some of the least attractive language you could use about health risk to start talking about wellbeing.
Tom Rath
#42. I work a lot with a green screen, which is really time consuming. All the special effects are.
Meaghan Rath
#43. To me, the fans just seem so loyal, above anything, which is amazing. What more can you ask for in a fan?
Meaghan Rath
#44. The single biggest threat to our own wellbeing tends to be ourselves
Tom Rath
#45. When we can see an immediate payoff, we are more likely to change our behavior in the moment. This aligns our daily actions with our long-term interests.
Tom Rath
#46. Most people perceive their occupation as being a detriment to their overall wellbeing.
Tom Rath
#47. I fully believe in ghosts. I have, my entire life. The first house I ever lived in was haunted. There was a grave of a man in the backyard. I was just a baby then, but my parents would tell me that every night, at the same time, they would hear someone walking up the stairs.
Meaghan Rath
#48. It's tempting to work more than 60 hours a week and sacrifice sleep, not move, and eat bad foods as they are convenient. But this comes with a cost.
Tom Rath
#49. The data suggest that to have a thriving day, we need six hours of social time.
Tom Rath
#50. When I talk to people and I get animated, I touch them and am very physically involved. It's actually been really hard, but it's an acting challenge.
Meaghan Rath
#51. If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment.
Tom Rath
#52. Make work a purpose, not just a place.
Tom Rath
#53. Trying to do a little bit of everything leads to doing nothing of substance. When you let the demands of a day pull you in 20 different directions, they do exactly that
Tom Rath
#54. When we build on our strengths and daily successes - instead of focusing on failures - we simply learn more.
Tom Rath
#55. At its fundamentally flawed core, the aim of almost any learning program is to help us become who we are not.
Tom Rath
#56. It's hard to keep the energy and the emotion of the scene when they're installing a massive green screen behind you.
Meaghan Rath
#57. Even though people spend more of their waking hours at work than anywhere else, people underestimate how work influences their overall wellbeing and daily experience.
Tom Rath
#58. Team members care about one another, listen, share secrets, talk about the latest news, have heated arguments, are sometimes jealous of each other, and even cry together.
Tom Rath
#59. It's unrealistic to expect the person you go to for sage advice also to be the person you go out and have a good time with. And it's unlikely that he or she will be the same person who's pushing you and motivating you to do more every day, like a coach or manager does.
Tom Rath
#60. I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs because that was their personality, and no matter how hard managers tried, there wasn't much they could do with some of those people.
Tom Rath
#61. Fortunately, going from the low end of this continuum to the recommended 10,000 steps can lead to significant health benefits in the short term as well as the long run.
Tom Rath
#62. An Australian study of more than 12,000 adults estimated that every single hour spent watching television after the age of 25 decreased the viewer's life expectancy by 22 minutes.
Tom Rath
#63. There is certainly some predisposition to wellbeing, based on the research I've looked at. There are people who have a lot more natural discipline. But for most of us, it takes a lot more in terms of social expectations, where, say, we tell people we're going to run a 5K.
Tom Rath
#64. If a school makes an effort to provide kids the right foods and help them to be more active, this benefits the student and the family's health. If you embark on a program to improve your health with a church or community group, you are more likely to stick with it over time.
Tom Rath
#65. While the things that motivate us differ greatly from one person to the next, the outcomes do not.
Tom Rath
#66. I've done a couple of series before, and what I like about TV is, as an actor, you get that chance to practice all the time, and that's really how you grow.
Meaghan Rath
#67. The right choices over time greatly improve your odds of a long and healthy life.
Tom Rath
#68. I'm a researcher, so I'm realistic that there's nothing I'm doing that's going to prevent me from getting cancer in the future. But I can slow it down.
Tom Rath
#69. On average, spending time with your boss is consistently rated as the least pleasurable activity in a given day.
Tom Rath
#70. I'm not one of those actors that goes to watch the playback, after every take. I really don't like it, and I don't want to see it.
Meaghan Rath
#71. I think the term 'friend' itself has lost almost all of its exclusivity. Even the term 'good friend' is overused. Adding the word 'vital' provides a clear definition of what we mean.
Tom Rath
#72. What we've learned is that if you can make the right decision in the supermarket aisle, it's a heck of a lot easier to make a good decision when you reach in your cupboard when you're craving a snack at eight o'clock at night.
Tom Rath
#73. There aren't as many roles for people who look like me, and it was always complicated when it came to casting my parents. But now I couldn't be more grateful that I have a different look.
Meaghan Rath
#74. No matter how healthy you are today, you can take specific actions to have more energy and live longer.
Tom Rath
#75. When I was younger, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do, but I told a lot of lies in school. I told my friends once that I was playing John Travolta's daughter in a movie. I also told people that I had this romantic affair with Jonathan Taylor Thomas over a summer.
Meaghan Rath
#76. I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my parents if I could have an agent for Christmas.
Meaghan Rath
#77. Positive defaults align our short-term decisions with our long-term interests. And we don't always do that.
Tom Rath
#78. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to our shortcomings than to our strengths.
Tom Rath
#79. Followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope
Tom Rath
#80. The most important thing executives can do is send a very clear message to their employees that they care about each person's overall wellbeing and that they want to be a part of helping it improve over time.
Tom Rath
#81. When I speak with people who love their jobs and have vital friendships at work, they always talk about how their workgroup is like a family.
Tom Rath
#82. Wanting a more positive environment isn't enough. You need to do something, and it doesn't require a great deal of effort or some huge change in the way you approach things at work.
Tom Rath
#83. Instead of celebrating what makes each child unique, most parents push their children to "fit in" so that they don't "stick out." This unwittingly stomps out individuality and encourages conformity, despite these parents' good intentions
Tom Rath
#84. Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.
Tom Rath
#85. One's single greatest strength may be uncovering the hidden talents of another person.
Tom Rath
#86. The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile.
Tom Rath
#87. You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.
Tom Rath
#88. The quickest way to be a little bit happier and more engaged in your job is to spend some time thinking about developing closer friendships.
Tom Rath
#89. When we look at what has the strongest statistical relationship to overall evaluation of your life, the first one is your career well-being, or the mission, purpose and meaning of what you're doing when you wake up each day.
Tom Rath
#90. I act as if my life depends on each decision. Because it does.
Tom Rath
#91. The things that change people's lives are usually an accumulation of small acts.
Tom Rath
#92. What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths - and can call on the right strength at the right time.
Tom Rath
#94. The most successful people start with dominant talent - and then add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. When they do this, the raw talent actually serves as a multiplier.
Tom Rath
#95. Ignoring negative things that need to be changed is destructive and does nothing to alleviate negativity. Instead, we should focus on the way we're treating other people in our brief interactions with them.
Tom Rath
#96. Regardless of your age, you can make better choices in the moment. Small decisions - about how you eat, move, and sleep each day - count more than you think. As I have learned from personal experience, these choices shape your life.
Tom Rath
#97. Clearly, there aren't enough positive moments or interactions happening in the workplace. As a result, our economy suffers, companies suffer, and individual relationships suffer.
Tom Rath
#98. People who have at least three or four very close friendships are healthier, have higher wellbeing, and are more engaged in their jobs. But the absence of any close friendships can lead to boredom, loneliness, and depression.
Tom Rath
#99. For wellbeing to take hold, it's got to be something that individual team members are getting excited about in their own lives. It can't be something that a company is forcing top-down through hierarchical structures.
Tom Rath
#100. We don't have any measures in most cases of the health of our social relationships, of what we're giving to the community.
Tom Rath
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