The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.

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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.

– Peter Drucker

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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.

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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.

– Isaac Asimov

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By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world. By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

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By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world. By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

– Albert Schweitzer

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Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

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Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

– Peter Drucker

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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

– Lin Yutang

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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

– Meister Eckhart

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Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

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Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

– Heraclitus

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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

– E.B. White

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it.

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You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it.

– Albert Einstein

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