"Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character."
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"If you want to make small changes, change how you do things. If you want to make major changes, change the way you see things."
"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say 'no' to other things."
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"Every human has four endowments - self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change."
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"When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen."
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"Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it."
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71
"In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do."
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"The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value."
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"Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be."
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"We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice."
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"Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships."