"The only way we can handle change around us is to know what is changeless about ourselves"
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"Passion is the fire, enthusiasm and courage that an individual feels when she is doing something she loves while accomplishing worthy ends, something that satisfies her deepest needs."
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"If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road."
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"Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world."
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"If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms."
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"The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth."
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"True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless principles, which will build trust and respect from the entire organization. Those with formal authority alone will lose this trust and respect."
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"An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we've put into it are also in us, in the way we live our lives day by day."
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"A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional."
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"Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge."
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"You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others."
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"What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other...that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift."
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"We must seek to understand the intent of communication without prejudging or rejecting the content... Communication, after all, is not so much a matter of intellect as it is of trust and acceptance of others, of their ideas and feelings, acceptance of the fact that they're different, and that from their point of view, they are right."
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"Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves."
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"I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with."
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"All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things"
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"Principles are the territory. Values are maps."
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"If we live out of our memory, we're tied to the past and to that which is finite. When we live out of our imagination, we're tied to that which is infinite."
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"A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth."
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"There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature."
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