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18/09/2013
- Galileo - You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
- Napoleon Hill - There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants and a burning desire to achieve it.
- Stephen covey - Before you began scrambling up the ladder of success, make sure that it is leaning against the right building.
- Goals are the fuels in the furnace of achievement.
- Proper prior planning prevents poor performance.
- Time management is really life management, personal management.
- Orison Swelt Marden - Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
- What can i and only i do that if done well will make a real difference?
- What is the most valuable use of my time right now?
- Goethe - A) Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least. b) Only engage and the mind grows heated. Begin it and the work will be completed.
- You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower value activities.
- You can get better only when you are open to the constructive input of other people.
- Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
- Your rewards, both financial and emotional, will always be in direct proportion to your results, to the value of your contribution. If you want to increase your rewards, you must focus on increasing the value of what you do.
- While you are setting goals and priorities, getting organized, concentrating single-minded on one task at a time and disciplining yourself to complete your most important tasks, you must never forget that your ultimate goal is to live a long, happy and healthy life.
- Fully 85 percent of you happiness in life will come from happy relationships with other people, especially those closest to you, as well as the members of your family. The critical determinant of the quality of your relationships is the amount of time that you spend face to face with the people you love and who love you in return.
- It is the quality of time at work that counts and the quantity of time at home that matters.
- You must never lose sight of the fact that the reason for working efficiently is so that you can enjoy a higher quality of life at home with your family.
- The only way to overcome your fear is to "do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain".
- The way you develop the courage you need is to act as if you already had the courage and behave accordingly.
- Learn what you need to learn so that you can do your work in an excellent fashion.
- Remember, however good you are today, your knowledge and skills are becoming obsolete at a rapid rate. Anytime you stop striving to get better, you are bound to get worse.
- Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.
- The more you learn, the more you can learn. Just as you can build your physical muscles through physical exercise, you can build your mental muscles with mental exercises.
- Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
- The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
- Successful people continually put the pressure on themselves to perform at high levels.
- Most of your emotions, positive or negative are determined by how you talk to yourself on a minute to minute basis. It is not what happens to you but the way that you interpret the things that are happening to you that determines how you feel.
- You should never share your problems with others because 80% of people don't care about them anyway and the other 20% are king of glad that you've got them in the first place.
- Difficulties come not to obstruct but to instruct.
- When you continually visualize your goals and ideals and talk to yourself in a positive way, you feel more focused and energized.
- For you to stay calm, clearheaded and capable of performing at your best, you need to detach on a regular basis from the technology and communication devices that can overwhelm you if you are not careful.
- Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on a limited set of targets.
- You job in time management is to deliberately and creatively organize the concentrated time periods you need to get your key jobs done well and on schedule.
- Do not wait; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
- Perhaps the most outwardly identifiable quality of high performing man and women is action orientation. They are in a hurry to get their key tasks completed.
- Self discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
- Self discipline, self mastery and self control are the basic building blocks of character and high performance.
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