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Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#genuinely #gets #happy #i #instead

You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#ever #extremely #job #life #making

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#condemned #condition #deprived #dispossessed #enjoy

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#around #bottom #bottom line #clear #crystal

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#balance #disciplines #execution #forget #four

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise. ↗

— Noel Coward

#i #i love #just #long #love

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday. ↗

— Noel Coward

#always #am #due #having #i

I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage. ↗

— Noel Coward

#astrology #believe #blame #failures #i

I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again. ↗

— Noel Coward

#i #marrying #sometimes #then #thought

It seems logical to suppose that history's pattern reflects innate differences among people themselves. Of course, we're taught that it's not polite to say so in public. We see in our daily lives that some of the conquered peoples continue to form an underclass, centuries after the conquests or slave imports took place. We're told that this too is to be attributed not to any biological shortcomings but to social disadvantages and limited opportunities. Nevertheless, we have to wonder. We keep seeing all those glaring, persistent differences in peoples' status. We're assured that the seemingly transparent biological explanation for the world's inequalities as of A.D. 1500 is wrong, but we're not told what the correct explanation is. Until we have some convincing, detailed, agreed-upon explanation for the broad pattern of history, most people will continue to suspect that the racist biological explanation is correct after all. That seems to me the strongest argument for writing this book. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#inspirational #education