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We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we must stand at…

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When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly…
Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.
Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the…
Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do…
Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.
Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent…
We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we…
In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There…
We need to move from the leader as hero, to the leader as host.
I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken…

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In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and… — Edward de Bono
We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we… — Margaret J. Wheatley
We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead… — Jimmy Carter
The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster… — Wynn Bullock
It's exciting to take control of your future instead of waiting for the phone to ring, — Jennifer Westfeldt
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the… — Norman Borlaug
It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The past is an interpretation. The future is on illusion. The world does not more through time as if it were a… — Shams Tabrizi
People who achieve great things are people who make choices. Far too many people today let life dictate their future instead of… — Phil Cooke
Do not follow after the past; do not go forward to meet the future. Instead, just rest the mind naturally in the… — Gampopa
America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would… — Mary McCarthy
The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It's a problem that we… — Jimmy Carter

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