"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."

Lois, George on creativity
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"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."

Ford, Henry on problems
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"Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast."

Peale, Norman Vincent on happiness   

"Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system."

Covey, Stephen R. on time
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"Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."

Drucker, Peter F. on leadership
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"Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away."

Lasorda, Tommy on management   

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Churchill, Winston on opportunity
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"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed."

Washington, Booker T. on success
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"Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do."

Peale, Norman Vincent on enthusiasm
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"I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."

Rockefeller, John D. on perseverance
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"I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties."

Penney, J. C. (James Cash) on problems
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"Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement."

Fleyer, Paul J. on work
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"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity."

Schweitzer, Albert on adversity
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"Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is."

Kempis, Thomas on adversity
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"Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want."

Sinetar, Marsha on difficulties
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"The INNOVATION point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams."

Porter, W. Arthur on innovation   

"Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love"

Turner, Rev. Dale on love
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"Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on motivation
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"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly."

Rohn, Jim on leadership
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"Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end."

Goldsmith, Oliver on wisdom   

"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society."

Lombardi, Vince on cooperation
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"If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative."

Unknown, Source on cooperation
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"Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

Hilton, Conrad on perseverance
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"Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman."

Hilton, Conrad on enthusiasm
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"Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy."

Rohn, Jim on service
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