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It doesn’t really matter how fast you’re going if you’re heading in the wrong direction.

Stephen Covey

It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
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Act Humility Seek Understand Wisdom
The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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Challenge Inspirational One Liner Risk
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
Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
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Courageous Result Thinking
Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
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Clock Compass Life Live Yourself
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
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Change Decision Ourselves
Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
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Improvement Motivational Skills Yourself
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
Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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Seek Understand Yourself
Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.
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Company Motivational People Talent Yourself
Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven’t paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
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Goal Important Pay People Price Simplicity Struggle
Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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Contribution Life
Before you wonder “Am I doing things right?” wonder “Am I doing the right things?”
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Right Wonder Yourself
Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
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Leadership Management
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
To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
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Empathy Human Important Skill

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