The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.

'In empathic listening you listen with your ears, but you also, and more importantly, listen with you eyes and with your heart. You listen for feeling, for meaning. You listen for behaviour. You use your right brain as well as your left. You sense, you intuit, you feel.' ... 'You have to open yourself up to be influenced'.

If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.

It's not only a matter of when to do things, but whether or not to do them at all.

He who has a why can deal with any what or how.

The more people train their counsciousness, the more sensitivie they are to it. It's like you had your own voice coming to you.