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When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?
Give someone responsibility and they will do their best. Make them accountable and they will do even better.
No matter when or where, always bring your 'A' game, because you never know when it will open doors for you.
Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean.
Value is a perception not a calculation. Value is something people feel, not something we tell them they get
I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors.
Instead of showing up to let everyone know how great we are, show up to find out how great everyone else is.
Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.
I pray that my heart can continue to open and expand so I can fully receive love and not waste a drop of it!
I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.
You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.
I bet he never goes on YouTube. He's too busy. It's only tragic cases like you and me who are always online.
In between your failure-tree And your triumph-tree, The tree that is growing Is known as your patience-tree.
You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.
Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.
If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless.
If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.
And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.
The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.
We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.
Play cannot be defined, because in play all definitions slither, dance, combine, break apart, and recombine.
If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians.
Some intentionally injure others through mocking, sarcasm with no intent to help. Others are trying to help.
The same government that brought you urban renewal is likely to make an even worse mess of suburban renewal.
When I'm out and about, I'll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a writer.
I started collecting crickets to study them. Now I expect they will be my companions for many years to come.
For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.
Unexpected change is like a breath of fresh air -- a little brisk at first, but magic for the body and soul.
And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!
Messages about money are passed down from generation to generation, worn and chipped like the family dishes.
There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.
Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.
Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.
According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.
[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.
Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.
This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us.
Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.
What I think a psychic is, unfortunately, I think in this day and age, it's taken on sort of a rancid sound.
In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.
The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.
Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.
Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid.
You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.
Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.
I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.