Strangest thing is, you learn the value of experience only with experience
Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing to speak. They're filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people's lives.
Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think WinWin Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.
Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing and cynicism, all which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive.
It's almost like it's my alter ego when I get on stage. . . I turn into this different person, seriously. Bipolar disorder. I'm tired of everybody touching me and things being plugged into my head.
The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.
It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.