I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing to speak. They're filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people's lives.
Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think WinWin Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.
Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing and cynicism, all which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive.
Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?
And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.
If you can capture a womans imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.
I can’t function around a man if I know his ability to give pleasure.