Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
("The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People")
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Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.Stephen R. Covey
Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.
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We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.
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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
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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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