Issue 245
- It was much later that I realized Dad's secret.
He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened
to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes
the same way he talked and listened to a bishop or a
college president. He was seriously interested
in who you were and what you had to say.
- Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for
getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others
to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else,
sacrifice to get there.
- Before you can inspire with emotion,
you must be swamped with it yourself.
Before you can move their tears, your own must flow.
To convince them, you must yourself believe.
- The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests.
- Meditation consists in conducting consciousness beyond the point
where it is the consciousness of a finite body or a finite mind,
transferring the focus from level to level without losing its continuity or form.
- Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
- To be yourself is an achievement in itself.
- Difficulties are meant to rouse not discourage.
The human spirit is grown strong from conflict.
- The tragedy of life is not that man loses,
but that he almost wins.
- Concern over criticism clogs creativity.