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It is our willing permission, our consent to what happens to us, that hurts us far more than what happens to us in the first place.
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Keep in mind that when you're working with your family, "slow" is "fast" and "fast" is
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Where we stand depends on where we sit.
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What we believe about ourselves and our purpose has a powerful impact on how we live, how we love, and what we learn.
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Unless there are good feelings between people, reasoning intelligently is almost impossible.
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Happiness - in part at least - the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice waht we want for what we want eventually
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The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior.
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Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.
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Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.
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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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When you live out of your memory, you focus on the past. When you live out of your imagination, you focus on the future.
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Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.
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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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My friend, love is a verb. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her.
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The term paradigm shift was introduced by Thomas Kuhn in his highly influential landmark book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
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I've learned that once children gain a sense of real possession, they share very naturally, freely, and spontaneously.
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If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee.
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There is no effectiveness without discipline, and there is no discipline without character.
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Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important
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It is character that communicates most eloquently. As Emerson once put it, What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say.
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If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.
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remember to keep working from the inside out and keep getting back on track when we blow it.
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How you treat the one reveals how youregard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one. — Stephen R. Covey
man you might like to take her out. If you were
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If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent.
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we're responsible for our own lives.
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The way we see things is the source of the way we think or the way we act
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People simply feel better about themselves when they're good at something.
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leadership is communicating others' worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves. Right
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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 — Stephen R. Covey
Suddenly I saw things differently, and because I saw differently, I thought differently, I felt differently, I behaved differently.
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Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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It is not what others do or even our own mistakes that hurt us the most; it is our response to those things.
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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.
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Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.
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We detect rather than invent our missions in life. I
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more important than how fast you're going, is where you're headed.
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You can't change the fruit without changing the root.
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When man created the mirror, he began to lose his soul. He became more concerned with his image than with his self.
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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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The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there--shared vision and values.
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Out of his private victories, public victories began to come.
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To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
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Self awareness gives us ultimate human freedom.
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Organizations are composed of people, and the more effective those people, the stronger the organization.
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Maturity is the balance between courage and consideration. I
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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance,
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The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions
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While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
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When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.
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Our paradigms, correct or incorrect, are the sources of our attitudes and behaviors, and ultimately our relationships with others. *
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Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
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habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.
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People have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.
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Sincere apologies make deposits; repeated apologies interpreted as insincere make withdrawals. And the quality of the relationship reflects it.
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The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
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Statement - and then to bring that sense of mission, of purpose, to your
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Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
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The thing I learned is that you don't invent your mission, you detect it. You uncover it, as it were.
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Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.
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Frankl hypothesized that we have three parts to our nature:
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Independent people can get what they want through
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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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When we talk about time management, it seems ridiculous to worry about speed before direction, about saving minutes when we may be wasting years.
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Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.
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All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.
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Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
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You must be open and influenceable; then ironically, you will also discover an increase in your own power to influence
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Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
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It comes from within.
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The way we see the problem is the problem.
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You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.
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But borrowing strength builds weakness.
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Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it every day and soon it cannot be broken.
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The language of reactive people absolves them of responsibility.
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The way you spend your time is a result of the way you see your time and the way you really see your priorities.
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I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.
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At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.
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Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It's not logical: it's psychological. And it's very real.
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I realized that Sandra and I had been getting social mileage out of our children's good behavior, and, in our eyes, this son simply didn't measure up.
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It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.
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The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do,
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A lie is any communication with intent to deceive,
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My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.
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If you wait to be acted upon, you will be acted upon. And growth and opportunity consequences attend either road.
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Just as faith without works is dead, so also works without faith.
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The more closely our maps or paradigms are aligned with these principles or natural laws, the more accurate and functional they will be
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Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.
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We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.
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Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic
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When all you want is a person's body and you don't really want their mind, heart or spirit, you have reduced a person to a thing.
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We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.
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