Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
- Topic: Discipline, Leadership
- Location: Hana, Hawaii, Maui
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Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do things, we can accomplish those goals.
Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence—natural ability notwithstanding.
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I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.
It is frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
To educate in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
