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“Every time you think the problem is 'out there,' that very thought is the problem.”
“There is no future in a job. The only future is inside oneself. We look inside rather than outside. We become producer rather than consumers of other peoples’ production.”
“An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.”
“My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I'd wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, 'You're going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.'”
“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.”
“The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.”
“Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.”
“The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.”
“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
“Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.”
“Listen with your eyes for feelings.”
“When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.”
“The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.”
“It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.”
“The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.”
“To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.”
“But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!”
“The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.”
“In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.”
“We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.”