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Patience,
persistence and
perspiration make
an unbeatable
combination for
success.
Napolean Hill
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Persistent people
begin their success
where others end
in failure.
Edward Eggleston
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To be contented
drop the words ‘if
only’ and substitute
‘next time’.
Unknown
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Persistence
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Be like the
postage stamp.
Stick to one thing
until you get there.
Margaret Car ty
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Persistence is the
twin sister of
excellence. One is
a matter of quality;
the other a matter
of time.
Marabel Morgan
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It’s better to sleep on things
beforehand than to lie awake about them afterward.
BaltasarGracian
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It is easier to suppress the first
desire than to satisfy all that
follow it.
Benjamin Franklin
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Don’t throw away the old bucket until you know
that the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb
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Be slow of tongue quick
of eye.
Tim Rodemann
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Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so that we
could listen twice as much as we could speak.
Epictetus
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Did you notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is
not obsessed with being right?
Wayne W. Dyer
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Silent and listen are spelled with the same letters.
Unknown
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Listening is as important as
talking. If you’re a good listener people often
compliment you for being a good
conversationalist.
Jesse Ventura
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The most important thing
in education is not so much to obtain new
facts as to discover new
ways of thinking about them.
Sir William Brag
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Flexibility in Thinking
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Thinking fl exibly involves
breaking out of established
patterns in order to look
at things a different way.
Unknown
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Change isn’t fun and
exciting and, like a haircut, looks funny at fi rst; but once you get used to
it, it’s great.
Anne Blair
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Flexibility in Thinking
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I can’t understand
why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of
old ones.
John Cage
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Flexibility in Thinking
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Don’t be afraid to give up the
good and go for the great.
Kerry Rogers
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When one door shuts, another
one opens.
Miguel de Cervantes
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This moment deserves your full attention, for it will not
pass this way again.
Dan Millman
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Mental is to physical what four is to one.
Lloyd Carr
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The butterfly counts not the months, but the
moments and still has time
enough.
R. Tagore
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Ignorance on fire is better
than knowledge on ice.
Greg Olsen
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When the mind is thinking it is
talking to itself.
Plato
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My success is measured by
willingness to keep trying.
Unknown
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Striving for Accuracy
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Luck is what you have left over after you give
100%.
Langston Coleman
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Striving for Accuracy
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Measure a thousand times and cut once.
TurkishProverb
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Good is not good where better is
expected.
ThomasFuller
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The man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct
it is committing another mistake.
Confucius
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He who stops being better,
stops being good.
Oliver Cromwell
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It’s never crowded along the extra mile.
Dr Wayne Dyer
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I’ve always tried to go a step past wherever other people expected me to end up.
Beverley Sills
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The key to wisdom is
knowing all the right
questions.
A Einstein
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Questioning and Problem Posing
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Learn from yesterday,
live for today, hope for
tomorrow. The important
thing is not to stop
questioning.
Unknown
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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who
does not ask is a fool for
ever.
Chinese Proverb
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A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
Unknown
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I’ve never made a mistake.
I’ve only learned from experience.
Thomas A. Edison
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Life is a succession of lessons which
must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
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The past is a guidepost, not a
hitching post.
L. Thomas Holdcroft
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There is nothing wrong with making a
mistake as long as you don’t follow it up
with encores.
Unknown
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Being clear with yourself
opens the way for being
more clear with others in the way
you feel and think.
Unknown
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Be careful of your
thoughts and you can change your
world.
NormanV. Peale
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Words are, of course, the most powerful
drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
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It is good to rub and polish our
brain against that of others.
Michael De Montaigne
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It is not easy to describe the sea without the
mouth.
Kokyu
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Gathering Data Through All Senses
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Observe perpetually.
Henry Hames
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Gathering Data Through All Senses
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Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world. In a very real sense
they are the keys to unlocking the meaning of life
around us.
Jean Houston
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Gathering Data Through All Senses
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Tell me, and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may
remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand.
Native American Proverb
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Creativity – the power to connect the seemingly
unconnected.
William Plomer
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Creating, Imagining, Innovating Creativity
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Imagination is the
highest kite one can fly.
Lauren Bacall
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Creativity is not the finding
of a thing, but making
something out of it after it is
found.
James R. Lowell
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Creativity is allowing
oneself to make mistakes. Art
is knowing which ones to
keep.
Lou Dorfsman
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Disgust and Resolve are two
of the great emotions that lead to change.
Jim Rohn
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People do their best work
when they are passionately
engaged in what they are doing.
Erie S. Raymond
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Observe what is with undivided
awareness.
Bruce Lee
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The most beautiful experience in
the world is the experience of the
mysterious.
A. Einstein
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Only those who risk going
too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot
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The way to develop
self-confidence is to do the
thing you fear.
William Jennings
Bryan
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He who is not courageous enough to
take risks will accomplish
nothing.
Muhammad Ali
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To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
PierreCorneille
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What you risk reveals what
you value.
Jeanette Winterson
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Only those who will risk going too far can
possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot
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Sometimes you just have to take a leap and build your wings on the way down.
Kobi Yamada
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Our five senses are incomplete without the
sixth – a sense of humour.
Unknown
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The best sense of humour
belongs to the man who can laugh at
himself.
Audrey Pihulyk
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Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional, so stick a
geranium in your hat and
be happy.
Barbara Johnson
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Humour is mankind’s greatest blessing.
Mark Twain
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Against the assault of laughter, nothing can
stand.
Mark Twain
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Talent wins games but teamwork
and intelligence wins
championships.
Michael Jordan
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Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together
is progress. Working together
is success.
H Ford
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the
world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that
ever has.
Margaret Mead
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It is good to rub and polish our
brain against that of others.
Michael De Montaigne
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The top of the hill is but the bottom of another mountain.
Ankit Jamwal
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Remaining Open to Continuous Learning
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Just when thecaterpillar
thought that life was over. It became a butterfly.
Unknown
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There is no finish line in learning. The more I learn,
the less I know.
Unknown
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