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    Joshua Brooks
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    My guess is that for some of us, the “I’m busy” response is simply a badge we wear to portray an image of importance to each other. Maybe not consciously—some of us play the “I’m busy” card out of hab...

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    David Brooks
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    In 1948, psychologists asked more than 10,000 adolescents whether they considered themselves to be a very important person. At that point, 12 percent said yes. The same question was asked in 2003, and...

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    Ken Costa
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    It is estimated the average person will spend 150,000 hours at work in his or her lifetime. That translates to roughly 40 percent of our lives being spent at work. That’s a lot. As a result, our work,...

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    Alison Lurie
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    For thousands of years human beings have communicated with one another first in the language of dress. Long before I am near enough to talk to you on the street, in a meeting, or at a party, you annou...

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    S. Truett Cathy
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    I’d like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order. We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things...

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    Tony Evans
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    God says to give thanks in everything. That doesn’t mean you need to give thanks FOR everything. You don’t need to give thanks FOR that bad day. Or FOR that bad relationship. Or being passed over at w...

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    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    When we say to people, 'I will pray for you,' we make a very important commitment. The sad thing is that this remark often remains nothing but a well-meant expression of concern.

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    Carol Tavris
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    The contemporary ventilationist view, that it is always important to express anger so that it won’t clog your arteries or your friendships . . . tends to overlook . . . the consequences of anger. If y...

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    Dallas Willard
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    Individual disasters, too, very largely follow upon human choices, our own or those of others. And whether or not they do in a particular case, the situations in which we find ourselves are never as i...

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    Steven Pressfield
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    The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.

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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

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    Abraham Lincoln
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    I desire to conduct the affairs of this administration in such a way that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall have at least one ...

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    Octavia Butler
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    I suspect that this is the most important thing I’ve said in all my interviews and talks as well as in this book. It’s a truth that applies to more than writing. It applies to anything that is importa...

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    Fred Rogers
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    What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with...

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. (New York: Harper & Row, 1963)

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    Parker J. Palmer
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    A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what’s going on inside him- or herself, inside his or her consciousness, lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.

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    Dorothy Day
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    An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the same individual is a giant in the eyes of a child at home. If peace is to be...

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    Philip Wagner
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    Peter Drucker, the late leadership guru, said that the four hardest jobs in America (and not necessarily in order, he added) are: The President of the United States A university president A CEO of a h...

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    Will and Ariel Durant
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    Proverbs 22:20-21 , Ecclesiastes 7:23-24, Job 38:1-4 , 1 Corinthians 1:18-25, Psalm 119:98-100
    Intellect is therefore a vital force in history, but it can also be a dissolvent and destructive power. Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional ...

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    Arthur Conan Doyle
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    It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

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    Helen Keller
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    I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

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    Dr. Seuss
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    A person's a person, no matter how small.

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    Albert Schweitzer
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    Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.

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    Thomas à Kempis
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    Influence never dies; every act, emotion, look and word makes influence tell for good or evil, happiness or woe, through the long future of eternity.

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    Ian MacLaren
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    Ability involves responsibility; power, to its last particle, is duty.

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    Søren Kierkegaard
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    Who am I? How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it? And if I am compelled to be involved, where is the manager—I have something to say about this.

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    Susan Wolf
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    A person’s life can be meaningful only if she cares fairly deeply about some things, only if she is gripped, excited, interested, engaged.

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    John Knox
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    Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a species of enthusiasm in their pursuit of it. They have kept on...

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    Fred Rogers
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    Anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.

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    Simon Sinek
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    Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action.
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