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Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
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Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.
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Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall.
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The deepest hunger of a child's human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of another.
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Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.
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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors.
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Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.
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Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships than creating together.
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The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.
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Perhaps the most important vision of all is develop a sense of self, a sense of your own destiny, a sense of unique mission and role in life.
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The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.
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We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
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Building and repairing relationships are long-term investments.
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When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.
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Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.
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An effective goal focuses primarily on results rather than activity. It identifies where you want to be, and, in the process, helps you determine where you are. It gives you important information on how to get there, and it tells you when you have arrived. It unifies your efforts and energy. It gives meaning and purpose to all you do.
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You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.
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Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall.
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Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival - to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.
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Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.
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It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts.
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Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
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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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