Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
STEPHEN COVEYMake 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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The problems in life come when we’re sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
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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.
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Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.
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You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
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Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.
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Being is seeing in the human dimension.
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When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you’re pledging your integrity.
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
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You can’t change the fruit without changing the root.
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Before you wonder “Am I doing things right?” wonder “Am I doing the right things?”
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It’s better to be trusted than to be liked.
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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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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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