"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
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"To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before."
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"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."
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"Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations."
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"Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important."
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"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
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"Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships."
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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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"Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem."
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"Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us."
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"If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won't require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone could ever manage them. Their fire comes from within, not from without. Their motivation is internal, not external."
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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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"Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them"
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"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply."
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"Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling."
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"A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships."
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"There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles."
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"Seek first to understand, then to be understood."
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"There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase 'to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy.' The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution."
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"When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well."
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