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You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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A moment of choice is a moment of truth.
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Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
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If the big rocks don't go in first, they aren't going to fit in later.
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Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you.
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Before you wonder "Am I doing things right?" wonder "Am I doing the right things?"
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Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.
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Difference is the beginning of synergy.
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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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Without exception, empathy is always appropriate.
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The way we see the problem is the problem.
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Spiritual Intelligence represents our drive for meaning and connection with the infinite.
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Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.
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Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.
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When we say that leadership is a choice, it basically means you can choose the level of initiative you want to exercise in response to the question, ‘What is the best I can do under the given circumstances?’
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If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.
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Quality relationships are built on principles, especially the principle of trust.
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You can't change the fruit without changing the root.
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Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.
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Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.
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We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.
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Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.
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Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
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People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to...rather than detracts from...our lives.
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