In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the
fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective
self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices
and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than
to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed
through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to
use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision
is the promise of what you shall read more
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision
is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of
what you shall at last unveil.
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare
moments when we are stirred by an read more
We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare
moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher
and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a
force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident
and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to
be taken over by our unquestioning self.
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission:
"While the world perishes we go our way: read more
Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission:
"While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless,
day after day.".
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten
years, plant trees; if read more
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten
years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I
have of it.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I
have of it.
You will get good attention and people will be more inclined to listen
to you if you can make a read more
You will get good attention and people will be more inclined to listen
to you if you can make a statement whereby their response is, "No
Shit!" or at least, "No kidding!".
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
