"Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities."
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"People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising."
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"Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies."
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"The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success."
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"The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values."
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"The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant."
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"Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination."
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"None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory."
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"Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you."
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"My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels."
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"When people have a real sense of legacy, a sense of mattering, a sense of contribution, it seems to tap into the deepest part of their heart and soul. It brings out the best and subordinates the rest."
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"Be proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?""
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"If we spend most of our time concerned about things we cannot truly directly influence, what we can influence will be reduced. If we spend our energies on those things over which we can expect positive results, we will expand our influence."
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"Principle-centered people are constantly educated by their experiences."
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"Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition."
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"People with a scarcity mentality think there is only so much in the world to go around. It's as if they see life as a pie. When another person gets a big piece, then they get less. Such people are always trying to get even, to pull others down to their level so they can get an equal or even bigger piece of the pie."
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"Interdependency follows independence."
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"Results matter! They matter to your credibility."
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"If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow"
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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. I can stop trying to shape up my wife and can work on my own weaknesses. I can focus an being a great marriage partner, a source of unconditional love and support. Hopefully, my wife will feel the power of proactive example and respond in kind. But, whether she does or doesn't, the most positive way I can influence my situation is to work on myself, on my being."
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