"Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience."
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"The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things."
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"Strength lies in differences, not in similarities"
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"If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow."
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"By behaving in ways that build trust with one, you build trust with many."
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"Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less."
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"When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you're pledging your integrity."
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"Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context."
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"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good."
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"Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them."
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"Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make"
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"Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand."
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"All things are created twice. There is a mental (first) creation, and a physical (second) creation. The physical creation follows the mental, just as a building follows a blueprint. If you don't make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default."
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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. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence."
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"To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you're going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction."
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"Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people."
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"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."
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"When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion-that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet-therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul's code."
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"Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking."
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"The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground."
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