Therese Rein Quotes
102 Therese Rein Quotes (Ingeus, Assure Programs, Thérèse Rein, Kevin Rudd)
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[After all the adversity her father had been through including paraplegia.] When my dad said to me ‘Don’t give up.’ I didn’t dare give up.
Therese Rein
I learnt the importance of work. I learnt the importance of perseverance and determination and application. And I learnt the importance of people in my life.
Therese Rein
I’ve learnt not to get ahead of myself and to focus on using my strengths in the service of something bigger than I am. That I believe in, that I think matters.
Therese Rein
I think I majored in an inadequate sense of the impossible.
Therese Rein
[On her father as a paraplegic being able to go and get his university degree in aeronautical engineering despite all the obstacles.] People didn’t think it was possible.
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We know work matters to people.
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I’ve learnt there are some things that cannot be taken away. That our values and who we are if we hold true to them, they are not taken away by external circumstances.
Therese Rein
[On one of the many things she would like to share with her grand-daughter.] I want to help her to ‘Have a go.’… I want to encourage her to get up and try again and have another go and have another go.
Therese Rein
Your reputation really matters… Your name really matters.
Therese Rein
[In April 2007] I've worked for 18 years to build a high-integrity company, of highly motivated, highly ethical people who help transform people's lives.
Therese Rein
Find your field of fascination… find the thing that you find really intriguing. And… put your energy into that because that creates its own energy
Therese Rein
What Paralympians do is they don't focus on what doesn't work, they focus on making what does work, work to the max.
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I put my energy into things that are really positive rather than worrying about things that I can't actually control.
Therese Rein
This is my life's work, not a job, not just a company, a business, an investment.
Therese Rein
Just because it hasn’t been done before [doesn’t mean] it can’t be done.
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[In April 2007] It's good to have wisdom and objectivity on your board [of directors].
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It's really good to have people who are not in the midst of the idea and the creation and the everything else, who can stand back and ask the 'Mmmm?' question, the 'have-you-thought-about-this?' question. And you really want that
Therese Rein
Does anyone actually enjoy having their picture taken?
Therese Rein
[In April 2007 on Ingeus.] Who would know (what the company's worth)? I've never bothered to have it valued.
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I didn't aspire to (money), I don't own it, don't think about and it's not something that's a measure of success for me.
Therese Rein
What's a measure of success for me is how many people we have helped out of a crisis of confidence, out of exclusion, depression, anxiety, a sense of isolation and into belonging, and into confidence and independence
Therese Rein
[On the beginning of Ingeus.] Begins with a man who suffered a crippling injury. That man was my father.
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Every single person is unique, a unique individual [who] deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.
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Your reputation really matters, hey? Your name really matters. And I've worked for 18 years to build a high-integrity company, of highly motivated, highly ethical people who help transform people's lives. I don't like having them dragged through the mud.
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[In April 2007] It's a long way to go yet.
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I think people don't want sometimes for people to try and fail.
Therese Rein
I think people don't want sometimes for people to try and fail. I think people don't necessarily want people to have go in case they'll be disappointed because living with someone's disappointment is a very hard thing. So I think they were trying to protect him from disappointment.
Therese Rein
The first thing I learned I think from him, implicitly, was that to find your field of fascination, to find the thing that you find really intriguing. And to put your energy into that because that creates its own energy.
Therese Rein
And the second thing I think is something that I actually heard Sir Phillip Craven say at the recent 20th anniversary of the Paralympics in Bonn, and that is that, what Paralympians do - and my dad was a Paralympian. What Paralympians do is they don't focus on what doesn't work, they focus on making what does work, work to the max. And that's what my dad did. And I think I've learnt a little bit about how to do that from him.
Therese Rein
[On Ingeus when she started it being oriented to finding jobs for the disabled.] Mmm.
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I studied psychology…
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This is what I can do, rather than what I can't do.
Therese Rein
[In the early days.] This is what I want to be doing with my life, helping people find out what they can do and helping them then get that job and keep the job and regain their confidence and get back on their feet.
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[On selling off the Australian part of Ingeus in 2007] It was my decision… It was the right thing to do. It would have been impossible to have a significant government contract in this position.
Therese Rein
There is a whole myth about super people. That super people can do everything and they do it on their own.
Therese Rein
I am not a superwoman…
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Sometimes there are elements of surprise in people's interpretation about what you do and why you do it and what you mean when you do it.
Therese Rein
There are a whole range of choices that people make in life and a whole range of things that people have to juggle. I have been a mum with two young kids and juggling all of that, I have enormous respect for the people in that position.
Therese Rein
[In July 2012] I’m not an exhibitionist, and I’m not an extrovert.
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