"Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant."
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"A moment of choice is a moment of truth."
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"When trust is high, the dividend you receive is like a performance multiplier, elevating and improving every dimension of your organization and your life.... In a company, high trust materially improves communication, collaboration, execution, innovation, strategy, engagement, partnering, and relationships with all stakeholders."
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"You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them."
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"Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly."
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"Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects."
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"The key is in not spending time, but in investing it."
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"A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence."
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"Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way."
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"Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel."
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"Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives."
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"If two people have the same opinion, one is unnecessary. ... I don't want to talk, to communicate, with someone who agrees with me; I want to communicate with you because you see it differently. I value that difference."
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"See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy."
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"Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before hey actually do it. They begin with the end in mind."
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"The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are."
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"Habit 7 is taking the time to sharpen the saw. By renewing the four dimensions of your nature - physical, spiritual, mental and social/emotional, you can work more quickly and effortlessly. To do this, we must be proactive. This is a Quadrant II (important, not urgent) activity that must be acted on. It's at the center of our Circle of Influence, so we must do it for ourselves."
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"Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing and cynicism, all which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive."
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"Listen to your conscience regarding something that you simply know you should do, then start small on it - make a promise and keep it. Then move forward and make a little larger promise and keep it. Eventually you'll discover that your sense of honor will become greater than your moods, and that will give you a level of confidence and excitement that you can move to other areas where you feel you need to make improvements or give service."
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"The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses"
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"When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems."
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