If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
STEPHEN COVEYIf we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.
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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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To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.
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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
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You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
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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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We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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It’s better to be trusted than to be liked.
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Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
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We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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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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