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“The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.”
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“In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that become the center of a person's life.”
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“Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there," stop yourself. That thought is the problem.”
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“Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.”
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“The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.”
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“While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.”
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“Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.”
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“If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.”
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“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
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“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
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“Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.”
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“In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.”
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“The creative process is also the most terrifying part because you don't know exactly what's going to happen or where it is going to lead. You don't know what new dangers and challenges you'll find. It takes an enormous amount of internal security to begin with the spirit of adventure, discovery, and creativity. Without doubt, you have to leave the comfort zone of base camp and confront an entirely new and unknown wilderness.”
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“We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations”
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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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“You basically get what you reward. If you want to achieve the goals and reflect the values in your mission statement, then you need to align the reward system with these goals and values.”
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“The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.”
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“Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.”
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“True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).”
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“The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.”
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“We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.”
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“Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.”
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“When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.”
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“Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.”
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“Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.”
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“If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.”
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“This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.”
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“Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.”
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“Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness and trust-based relationships.”
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“Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.”
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“You can't have the fruits without the roots.”
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“As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.”
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“If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.”
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“It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.”
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“Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people's agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits.”
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“Common sense is not always common practice.”
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“"If I make deposits into an Emotional Bank Account with you through courtesy, kindness, honesty, and keeping my commitments to you, I build up a reserve. Your trust toward me becomes higher, and I can call upon that trust many times if I need to. I can even make mistakes and that trust level, that emotional reserve, will compensate for it. My communication may not be clear, but you'll get my meaning anyway. You won't make me "an offender for a word." When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective."”
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“You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.”
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“True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.”
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“I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.”
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“The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses”
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“It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.”
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“Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.”
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“The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.”
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“If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy.”
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