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"I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to give a larger perspective and to constantly sense the interdependent nature of life."
"An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations."
"Be part of the solution, not part of the problem."
"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."
"I try to exercise regularly every day, if I can. It renews you and it gives you more balance in your life. This is a key leverage point."
"Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us."
"...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know."
"We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work."
"The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most important in our lives."
"When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called 'success'. But once you have a new challenge, the old, once-successful response no longer works. That's why it is called a 'failure'."
"The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value."
"People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them."
"It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves."
"The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing."
"Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity."
"Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence."
"If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek. How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique strengths, talents, and creativity, but, ultimately, success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied."
"I find most meetings are a waste of time, because they are so ill-prepared and there's little opportunity for true synergy in producing better solutions than what anyone originally thought of. So I work hard to only attend those meetings that have strategic importance and miss all kinds of other seemingly urgent meetings."
"When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident."
"As people enable themselves to achieve one or two goals for the year that are most meaningful, they will find power, peace of mind, and confidence in their abilities because they have achieved what they set out to accomplish. Your commitment to achieving what matters most will become the foundation for tremendous accomplishments and contributions. You will become the change you seek to make."