Focus, Don't Give Up

"Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time."

Samuel Smiles

The Church of Tomorrow, Today

"Typically, churches have viewed adolescents as objects of mission, not as agents of mission."

Kenda Dean

Take Action in the Direction of Success (However "Success" is Defined)

"Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do."

Albert Gray

Are You On Target?

"It's not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about?"

Henry David Thoreau

Passion Feels Like Play

"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."

Richard Bach

Sticks and Stones Break Bones, But Words Break the Soul

"Daniel Goleman claims that the high school dropout rate of children who are rejected by their peers is between two and eight times greater than that of children who are accepted."

Donald Miller

So You Can Look Back On It Later

"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now."

Alan Lakein

Learn Deep and Wide

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."

Thomas H. Huxley

It's Cutesy, But It's True

"A bad idea costs an arm & a leg. A good idea is a dime-a-dozen. A God idea is priceless."

Mark Batterson

Leaders Are Learners

"When you're through changing, you're through."

Bruce Barton

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Never Cease To Be Amazed

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

Dorothy Parker

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Not Rushed and Stressed, Focus On Priorities

"There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing."

Brian Tracy

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May We Accept and Show That Kind of Grace

"God loves you unconditionally as you are and not as you should be, because you are never going to be as you should be."

Brennan Manning

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Helping Make the Rules You Play By

"Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system."

Stephen Covey

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How To Get Things Done

"A good system shortens the road to the goal."

Orison Swett Marden

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Team Chemistry Is Tricky

"Getting good players, that's the easy part. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part."

Casey Stengel

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Popular Doesn't Make It True

"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."

Anatole France

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Should Do Versus Actually Do

"Systems have a greater impact on behavior than mission statements."

Andy Stanley

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Mediocre Made Easy

"There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good."

Robert Pirsig

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But Don't Take My Word For It

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

Sir Richard Steele

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