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Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.

Stephen Covey

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
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Inspirational Life Place Right Wrong
See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.
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Creative Exercise Opportunity Perspective Problem
The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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Inspirational Life Yourself
As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
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People Perspective Thinking
We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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Busy Deep Time
Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.
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Heart Important Mindset Preparation
To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
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Empathy Human Important Skill
People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.
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Feeling Impossible Intelligence Motivational People Reason Thinking
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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Inspirational Perseverance
Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?
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Experience Kind Value Yourself
There are three constants in life, change, choice and principles.
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Change Choice Life Philosophy Principle
Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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Apple Deep
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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Burn Inspirational Motivational Success
Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.
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Character Commitment Inspirational Judgement Light Problem
Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
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Foundation Life Principle Relationship Trust
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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Ourselves See World

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