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- Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.
Walter Russell,
The Man Who Tapped the Universe,
University of Science and
Philosophy.
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I am not
smarter, I just stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein.
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The
customer is always right. John Oberlin, Andrew
Lewis High School, 1970.
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Fear no one; respect everyone.
Chinese fortune cookie, Moses Moore, April 3, 2003.
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Andrew
Carnegie promised a million dollars to Charles Schwab if he could teach him
how to succeed. Schwab gave him this instruction:
Start each day by deciding what the most important thing you
can do today. Then do it.
Carnegie gladly paid Schwab.
- I shall see and seek the good
in all men. Benjamin Franklin.
- Make others happy and
they will make you rich. J. C. Penney.
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The 80-20 Rule applies in many
areas of life. We spend 80% or our effort on that which is only 20% relevant
and 20% on that which is worth 80%. Of endeavors, 80% go fine, 20% will give
us problems; 80% of the customers, patients, residents, clients… are
satisfied, pay on time, make work enjoyable; 20% are dissatisfied, do not pay,
complain. With this knowledge, we can focus our attention on that which is
worth 80%, that which deserves our life energies.
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Not talking is often much more
effective than talking. Charles B. Walker,
1984.
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As you think, so you are.
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If you must tell someone one thing negative,
precede it with two things positive.
Sarah-Tyler Moore, Summer 2002.
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Wu-wei.
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Sometimes the best action is nonaction.
Tao 2500 B. C.
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He who does not know,
talks. He who knows does not talk.
Tao 2500 B. C.
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When faced with a
decision, remember there are four choices: My way. Your way. Our way. And
the right Way (God’s Way). Pastor Rick Elmore, Cave Spring
Baptist Church. 1998.
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What you
do or say affects the Universe eternally. The snap of two fingers
reverberates infinitely through the Universe. Movement of a star in a distant
galaxy can cause a leaf to fall beside you on this rock called Earth.
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Trying
to understand the Infinite with this mere brain is like trying to swallow the
seven oceans with this mere stomach.
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Before even
beginning to talk to someone with a problem, listen, then listen again, then
ask if they have anything else to say, then ask if they have said everything
they had to say. Then you can talk and be heard. William
C. Cranwell’s father on dealing with a manager who was so angry he wanted to
quit.
- Hydrogen, a light, colorless,
odorless gas, if given enough time, turns into people.
- No one ever wished on their deathbed that they had
spent more time at the office.
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The
basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and
subservient people quickly—because if they don’t speak fast nobody will listen
to them. Thoughts on the Business of
Life, Forbes, April 21, 2003, Michael Caine.
Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life. Amen
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