“When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.”

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.

Being is seeing in the human dimension.

Begin with the end in mind.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

It’s better to be trusted than to be liked.

Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.

To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.

Emotionally I’m an introvert but it come off as aggression.

You’re probably impatient with the one person that triggers a strong negative emotional reaction in you.

Let’s take a short break from the outside world because you are emotionally unavailable.

I’m an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.

Kindness and healing is the only way for us to evolve emotionally.

Never be ashamed of expressing how you feel; being ashamed of emotional pain is as outlandish as being ashamed of shoulder pain. Your emotions are your truth; they are internal experiences that belong to you and no one has the right to criticize them.

Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.

You get moments all the time that kind of make you pinch yourself, some of them make you quite emotional.