What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
STEPHEN COVEYUnless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
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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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It’s better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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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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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
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Begin with the end in mind.
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There are three constants in life, change, choice and principles.
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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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Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.
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If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.
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You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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Before you wonder “Am I doing things right?” wonder “Am I doing the right things?”
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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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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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It doesn’t really matter how fast you’re going if you’re heading in the wrong direction.
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The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions.
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The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
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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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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
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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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You can buy a person’s hands but you can’t buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.
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