Age of Substitutes

“Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.” - Eric Bently

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Hero

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Results and activities

“Never confuse activity with results…results have to be real.” - James Johnson
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To Improve

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." - Winston Churchill

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Relationships

“Stand together yet not too near together, For the pillars of the temple stand apart.” – Kahlil Gibran on Relationships
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Becoming Somebody

"I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific". - Lily Tomlin
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Leaders for Future

“You cannot build future for the Leaders,
But, you can build Leaders for the future.” – Adapted by me J) from a T-shirt slogan

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Sum of parts

"The essential properties of a system are not determined by the sum of its parts but by the process of interactions between those parts". – Anonymous

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Minority Voices

“Minority voices often have the answer to the question which is yet to be asked.” – Anonymous
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Science and Poetry

"Science arose from poetry -- when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Best in others

"When we seek to discover the best in others,
We Somehow bring out the best in ourselves." -William Arthur Ward

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Growing slowly

“Be not afraid of growing slowly,
Be afraid of standing still.” – Chinese Proverb

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Do more

"The more one does, the more one attempts, the more one is capable of doing". - Indira Gandhi
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Answers and Questions

“People want answers, But the future is in questions !!!”.
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Begin with end in mind

“We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, But we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind.” - Stephen Covey

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World Class

"We build the road as we travel." - Antonio Machado
This thought juxtaposes well with the idea that being world-class is a journey. Being world-class is just like building the road inch by inch, as we travel on the path of the “next” practice.
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Communication

“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said…” – Peter Drucker
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Growing slowly

"Be not afraid of growing slowly.
Be afraid of standing still." - Chinese Proverb

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Priority

“Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.” - Dennis Waitley

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Time

"The Greatest Gift you can give someone is your time,
Because when you are giving someone your time,
You are giving them a portion of your life that you will never get back." - Anonymous

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You Can

“If you can’t, you must. If you must, you can.” - Anthony Robbins
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Excellence - a habit

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

Let’s remember Thomas Alva Edison today on his birthday who invented light bulb after thousands of failures, yet framed these failures as “We now know a thousand ways not to build a light bulb”. Thus epitomizing the fact that excellence indeed is a habit. Read more about him at http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventors/a/Thomas_Edison.htm

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Thanks.