We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives as we quit hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior and get to work on the root, the paradigms from which our attitudes and behaviors flow.
We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
Urgency addiction is a self-destructive behavior that temporarily fills the void created by unmet needs. And instead of meeting these needs, the tools and approaches of time management often feed the...
To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understandi...
There is no effectiveness without discipline, and there is no discipline without character.
The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do, he observed. They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of th...
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people...
Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny,
People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.
Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
My experience has been that there are times to teach and times not to teach. When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgm...
My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.
Just as breathing exercises help integrate body and mind, writing is a kind of psycho-neural muscular activity which helps bridge and integrate the conscious and subconscious minds. Writing distills,...
It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
In fact, grow or die is the moral imperative of all existence.
If you knew you couldn’t fail, what would you give your life to? If you knew you didn’t have to work for a living, what would you give your life to?
If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Happiness - in part at least - the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice waht we want for what we want eventually
For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.