Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away.

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity read more

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he read more

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isn’t.

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, read more

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The unexamined life is not worth living.