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“When you shut down the giving you shut down the receiving.”
“When you change your NOW story, you instantly change your past story and your future story.”
“Be a river - not a reservoir.”
“One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.”
“Management means the development of people, not the direction of things.”
“Do exactly the opposite of what the sheep are doing in order to become the Shepherd.”