"If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow."
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"Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations"
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"Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all."
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"When you study the lives of all great achievers-those who have had the greatest influence on others, those who have made things happen-you will find a pattern. Through their persistent efforts and inner struggle, they have greatly expanded their four native human intelligences or capacities. The highest manifestations of these four intelligences are: for mental, vision; for the physical, discipline; for the emotional, passion; for the spiritual, conscience. These manifestations also represent our highest means of expressing our voice."
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"If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so."
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"True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose)."
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"Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to whatever curves life throws at them."
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"If there is no gardener there is no garden."
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"Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity."
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"Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism - anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made."
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"There are principles that govern human effectiveness - natural laws in the human dimension that are just as real, just as unchanging and unarguably there as laws such as gravity are in the physical dimension."
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"A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make."
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"Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival - to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated."
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"The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions."
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"Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it."
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"Spiritual Intelligence represents our drive for meaning and connection with the infinite."
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"Whether or not we belong to a church or service organization or have a job that provides meaningful service opportunities, not a day goes by that we can't at least serve one other human being by making deposits of unconditional love."
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"When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust."
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"When your happiness comes primarily from the happiness of others, you know you have moved from a 'me' experience to a 'we' experience. And the whole problem-solving and opportunity-seizing process changes."
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"Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing what we call a trust dividend."
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