by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms, Stress Management
I created these problems for myself. I made decisions that caused me to be where I am today. That’s why I’m facing the challenge. So I have nobody to blame but myself. That means that I’ll not be angry, or cynical, or suspicious. I’ll assume responsibility for these problems. I got myself into it. I can get myself out of it. I still believe that every obstacle is an opportunity. To learn. To grow. To be corrected or protected from making mistakes. So all of this is good news. So I’m not discouraged. I’m motivated by this new challenge.
I’m not depressed. I’m impressed.
Dr. Robert Schuller
Author of:
Be Happy Attitudes
by Tony Mayo | For Business Owners, Leadership Development, Quotes and Aphorisms
An organization is a community of discourse.
Leadership is about influencing the nature of the discourse.
—Robert Kegan
Harvard University
See also, on this blog, step-by-step conversation instructions with video here:
The Conversation Contract.
by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
How now, my lord!
Why do you keep alone,
Of sorriest fancies your companions making,
Using those thoughts which should indeed have died
With them they think on?
Things without all remedy
Should be without regard: what’s done is done.
–Lady Macbeth to her husband
(and a million wives since,
to a million regretful husbands)
Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Act III, Scene 2
by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
Wise Woman’s Stone
A wise woman traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry. The wise woman opened her bag to share her food.
The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She (more…)
by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
Always remember this:
If you don’t attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
–H.L. Mencken
by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
…in the field of philosophy at the beginning of the 20th century, there was an enormous revolution. It was called the linguistic revolution, and it was the time when the understanding of language was fundamentally questioned.
Language went from simply being a shared “code” to describe reality to being a force that actually generates or creates reality. How I use offers and promises and requests and tell my “story” actually generates what is possible for me in action. And another part of the revolution was that language was now seen as action, not just words relating to action, but action itself.
When we speak, we act.
–Julio Olalla
Newfield Network
by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
–F. Scott Fitzgerald
author of Great Gatsby
by Tony Mayo | For Salespeople, Quotes and Aphorisms, Sales Techniques
The pessimist complains about the wind.
The optimist expects it to change.
The realist adjusts the sails.
–Author Unknown
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please add a comment.
by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms, Sales Techniques
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
— Henry David Thoreau
Walden, Chapter 18
Creativity and genius are two different things. Ordinary talent growths from earth towards the sky. But genius lives in the sky and tries to reach the earth from there.
— Kari Suomalainen
by Tony Mayo | Quotes and Aphorisms
Living is loving to live,
Loving the life that you live.
Living is more than
a plan to survive.
The man who is living,
is more than alive.
–Robin Field
in his Oratorio
Reason in Rhyme
(formerly titled Three Questions)
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