People rise and fall to meet your level of expectations for them. If you express skepticism and doubt in others, they will return your lack of confidence with mediocrity. But if you believe in them and expect them to do well, they will go the extra mile trying to do their best.

If you want to lead people, you have to let them come up close.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.

Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words.

When you reflect, you are able to put an experience into perspective... reflective thinking enables you to distance yourself from the intense emotions of particularly good or bad experiences and see them with fresh eyes.