Archive for February 8, 2010
Quotes from Robin Sharma
Feb 8th
- "The quality of the food you ingest affects the quality of your thoughts. In this information age, where rich ideas are the foundation of success, eating well is not just sound health practice. It is the foundation of success."
- "As you start your day, so you live your day. Rise early and enjoy the exceptional tranquility that the day's earliest hours bring before the crush of daily events clamour for your mind's attention."
- "Anything less than a conscious commitment to peak personal performance is an unconscious commitment to weak personal performance."
- "Purpose is the most powerful motivator in the world."
- "Most ineffectiveness stems from the fact that most people do not have the self-discipline to do what they know they should do, when they have to do it."
- "Secrets to every great relationship:promise-keeping, aggrsive listening, being consistently compassionate and, finally, most importantly, truth-telling."
- "Every time you avoid doing right, you fuel the habit of doing wrong."
- "Each time you don't return a phone call when you said you would or miss a meeting you promised to attend, you erode trust. That's the connection between promise-keeping and human relations."
- "Don't be so busy striving to make a living that you forget how to live a life."
- "Stop wishing for fewer problems and start searching for greater wisdom. By reading great works and consistently exposing your mind to the great thinkers, you will come to understand the ageless laws of nature and humanity."
- "Take control of the information that you feed your mind and ensure that it is the kind that will add value to your life. Set the goal of listening to wise people through their books or audio aids."
- "Happiness does not arrive when you achieve certain things. It comes through a state of mind that you create by the way that you process and interpret the events of your life."
- "The best way to inspire your children to develop into the kind of adults you dream of them becoming is to become the kind of adult you want them to be."
- "Deferring what is easy to do and preferring those activities that your heart tell you are the right ones always lead you to the family life of your dreams."
- "Before anyone will lead you a hand, you must first touch their hearts."
- "Most people spend more time focusing on their weaknesses than developing their strengths. And as a result of this, most people never connect with the greatness that it is their duty to discover."
- "The ultimate purpose of life is to manifest our highest talents in a way that adds value to the world and makes it a better place to be."
- "Deep fulfilment in life doesn't come from accumulating objects but from actualizing ourselves."
- "The quality of success you will experience in your life ultimately depends upon the tiny choices you make every minute of every hour of every day."
Quotes 111 to 120
Feb 8th
- Use your imagination. Try to work out things on your own. Try to invent the machine in your mind. Then seek out the facts to check your imagination.
- Always be ready to learn. However knowledgeable and experienced you may be, you can still learn something new.
- An alert, attentive mind gives you the means of improving yourself, for it demonstrates your intelligence and enables you to see and grasp opportunities that a less lively mind would not spot.
- What is holding you back? If you have a "Grasshopper Mind" you know that this is true. And you know why it is true. Even the blazing sun can't burn a hole in a piece of tissue-paper unless its rays are focused and concentrated on one spot.
- Take your hobbies seriously. Whatever they are, enter into them wholeheartedly. Become an expert. The best way to refresh your mind, to give it a new cutting edge, is to work hard at your hobbies.
- Learn to face and fight the hard experiences; Physically or mentally, or both.
- Alert can handle difficult work, arrive quickly at decisions and produce more. They do not put things off.
- Keep your senses sharp and your mind awake for the message they send you. Become aware of change and development. Sometimes small innovations evolve into important future development.
- Be observant. Notice what is going on both in your world and in the world of great events. Use all your five senses; sight, hearing, touch, smell, & taste, to acquire more knowledge of your surroundings.
- Learn a new skill. You might connect this with your main hobby or with your work. The mind and the body are one. To master a physical skill you need to develop a disciplined, lively mint to direct your hands and feet the way they should go.
