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" If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. "
Stephen Covey
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" Leadership is a choice, not a position. "
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" If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm. "
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Life
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Attitude
" Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems. "
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" Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution. "
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" Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value. "
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Value
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" The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too. "
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Feel
Culture
Cheating
" My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I'd wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, 'You're going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.' "
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Great
Mother
Night
" We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals. "
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Life
Decisions
Learning
" Live out of your imagination, not your history. "
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Out
Your
Live
" An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success. "
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Opportunity
Succeed
Success
" The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history. "
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Problems
Principles
Society
" The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken. "
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Spiritual
Identity
Financial
" Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships. "
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Trust
Communication
Life
" We see the world not as it is, but as we are. "
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See
World
" 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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Result
Great
Challenge
" Strength lies in differences, not in similarities. "
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Differences
Strength
Similarities
" For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution. "
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Great
World
Spiritual
" Begin with the end in mind. "
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Begin
End
Mind
" The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. "
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Mistake
Learn
Correct
" In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high. "
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Better
Pressure
Now
" 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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Look
Winner
Success
" When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices. "
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Negative
Creative
Control
" The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country. "
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America
Responsibility
Community
" The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. "
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Thing
Keep
Main
" The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life. "
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Life
Work
Time
" What is common sense isn't common practice. "
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Common Sense
Practice
Sense
" When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence. "
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Positive
Character
Home
" Most people are basically a victim of the circumstances of their life. They have things like 9/11, they have terrorism threats, they have new war threats, they have economy problems, and they think, 'What can I do? I'm basically a victim.' "
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People
Life
New
" When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen. "
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You
Giving
Understanding
" Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. "
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Role
School
Family