"We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions."
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"Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life."
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"You have to water the flowers you want to grow."
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"Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant."
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"When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities."
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"Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?"
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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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"Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people."
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"Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self."
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"How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one."
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"Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important"
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"We can never really change someone; people must change themselves."
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"We may find it convenient to live with the illusion that circumstances or other people are responsible for the quality of our lives, but the reality is that we are responsible-response-able-for our choices."
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"Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires balance."
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"People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary to get the job done."
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"To me, the essence of keeping the soul nourished is obedience to one's conscience. I don't think that the soul can be nourished unless people have a strong sense of conscience that they have educated and developed and soaked in the universal and timeless principles of integrity and service. This way, the individual's soul becomes part of the universal soul of service, contribution, and making a difference."
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"Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect."
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"Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms."
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"We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals."
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"If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man."
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