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A thread of quotes and sentences that stood out to me from books Ive read.
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1) It taught me that we must look at the lens through which we see the world, as well as at the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.
2) What we are, communicated far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
3) To try to change outward attitudes and behaviors does very little good in the long run if we fail to examine the basic paradigms from which those attitudes and behaviors flow.
4) Every significant breakthrough in the field of scientific endeavor is first a break with tradition, with old ways of thinking, with old paradigms.
5) Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all of the time.
6) Thinking is hard work; that is why so few do it.
7) Sharp people sharpen one another, just as iron sharpens iron. If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people.
8) You can act your way into feeling long before you can feel your way into action. If you wait until you feel like doing something you will most likely never accomplish it
9) Think like a man of action and act like a Man Of Thought.
10) If I’m going to learn and grow I must know what questions to ask and know how to apply the answers to my life. Listening has taught me a lot more than talking.
11) We all need to start demonstrating leadership regardless of titles. It is no longer an excuse to say you don’t have high rank so you do not need to take ownership of results, to succeed everybody had see themselves as a part of the leadership team. You do not need....
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Formal authority to lead anymore - only the desire to be involved and the commitment to make a positive difference.
“If everyone would sweep their own door step the whole world would be clean”
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“If everyone would sweep their own door step the whole world would be clean”
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12) The more I let go of needing all the things most people worry so much about and focused on doing brilliant work and reflecting some real leadership in my behavior, the more great things just seem to appear in my life almost by accident.
13) There is only one you in the world now and forever more. And no one else can ever be as good a you as you.
14) Success is created through the performance of a few small daily disciplines that stack up over time to produce achievements far beyond anything you could have ever planned for.
15) Its impossible to build a tribute to success on a foundation of excuses.
16) Watching someone else totally go for it can be incredibly upsetting to the person who’s spent a lifetime building a solid case for why they themselves can’t.
17) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
18) The inside out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others.
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It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character and it is futile to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
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19) The value of life lies not in he length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little.
20) Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
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Interdependence is far more mature, more advanced concept. If I am physically interdependent I am self reliant and capable, but I also realize that you and I working together can accomplish far more than even at my best, I could accomplish alone.
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21) What other people think of you is none of your business.
22) Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds.
23) You learn to walk by falling. You learn to lead by trying. But every misstep brings you closer to the perfect step.
24) Great people construct monuments and with the stones their Critics throw at them.
25) It is when no one criticizes you that you should be really worried.
26) Titles do bring power, but the problem with the type of power they bring is that if the title gets taken away, the power gets lost.
27) You’ve got to think about the “big things” while you are doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
28) There is a large difference between being alive and knowing how to live.
29) Knowledge is power only if a man know what facts are not to bother about.
30) It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
31) Daily ripples of superior performance add up over time to a tidal wave of outrageous success.
Failure on the other hand comes from a few daily acts of neglect that over time lead to disaster.
Failure on the other hand comes from a few daily acts of neglect that over time lead to disaster.
32) All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise, we would never have anything new.
33) Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.
34) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
35) Our Society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It’s a howling reproach.
36) Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior.
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Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.
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37) Good luck is nothing but preparedness and opportunity coming together.
38) The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
39) If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
