"Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image."

Waitley, Denis on self-image
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"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."

Waitley, Denis on children
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"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

Waitley, Denis on choice
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"Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed."

Thackeray, William M. on risk   

"The profound nature of relativity is not merely an abstraction of physics, it also explains why the distance from 1 to 1 million is greater than from 3 million to 5 million."

Parslow, Eric on relativity   

"Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon."

Waitley, Denis on expectation   

"Truth and honesty are quite different. What a person believes to be true always follows when honesty leads the way. But truth can be asserted when one is being dishonest as well."

Parslow, Eric on honesty   

"When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie."

Parslow, Eric on dishonesty
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"Absence of communication between necessarily linked parties ensures eventual conflict."

Parslow, Eric on communication   

"The notion of implied meaning is the root of misunderstanding."

Parslow, Eric on communication   

"Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality."

Parslow, Eric on death
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"Competing with an other is exhilarating, challenging, and healthy. That is what Games are for. When competition is brought into the social arena it undermines the competitor's self-esteem and confidence. It is a very subtle process. One we must be sensitive to, especially when evaluating our own motivations and behavior. "

Parslow, Eric on competition   

"The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness."

Maslow, Abraham H. on mind   

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."

Maslow, Abraham H. on perspective   

"You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth."

Ibsen, Henrik on ideals and idealism
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"The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone."

Ibsen, Henrik on self-reliance
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"Revolution is a tool of the past. A revolving door for corruption. The time has come for an Evolution for all humanity. Violence and hatred have no place in an Evolution."

Parslow, Eric on evolution   

"Substantive abandonment of convention is evidence of mastery."

Parslow, Eric on master   

"Anything and everything, physical or otherwise, is defined by its absence."

Parslow, Eric on existence   

"The appearance of a cat is not controlled by the color of it's skin but by the content of its hairacter."

Cote, Brian Michael on cats   

"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."

Barthel, Mildred on happiness
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"It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich."

Alda, Alan on happiness   

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."

Aurelius, Marcus on happiness
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"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."

Ballou, Hosea on happiness
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"The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself."

Baruch, Bernard M. on communication   

"There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it."

Carnegie, Dale on communication
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"Two monologues do not make a dialogue."

Daly, Jeff on communication
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"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."

Drucker, Peter F. on communication
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"The art of communication is the language of leadership."

Humes, James on communication
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"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of."

Weitzman, Geri on creation
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"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."

Augustine, St. on abstinence
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"Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity."

Barney, Natalie Clifford on abstinence
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"Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."

Bierce, Ambrose on abstinence
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"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water."

Fields, W. C. on abstinence
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"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."

Auden, W. H. on genius
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"A genius is one who can do anything except make a living."

Adams, Joey Lauren on genius
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"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on genius
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"Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed."

Baudelaire, Charles on genius
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"The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen."

Hazlitt, William on genius