professor, businessperson, writer
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How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.
You're not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.
Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.
Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.
A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services.
For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.
Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.
An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
We don't invent our missions, we detect them.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important.
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Remember, to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
...when you get a good night's sleep and wake up ready to produce throughout the day.
Self growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no higher investment.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.
Perform anonymous service. Whenever we do good for others anonymously, our sense of intrinsic worth and self-respect increases. … Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.
Unless we exercise our power to choose wisely, our actions will be determined by conditions. Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.
Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves.
If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.
Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.
Let natural consequences teach responsible behavior. One of the kindest things we can do is to let the natural or logical consequences of people's actions teach them responsible behavior. They may not like it or us, but popularity is a fickle standard by which to measure character development. Insisting on justice demands more true love, not less. We care enough for their growth and security to suffer their displeasure.
We present a dramatically different approach to time management. This is a principle-centered approach. It transcends the traditional prescriptions of faster, harder, smarter, and more. Rather than offering you another clock, this approach provides you with a compass — because more important than how fast you're going, is where you're headed.
It's not enough to have values without vision; you want to be good, but you want to be good for something. On the other hand, vision without values can create a Hitler. An empowering mission statement deals with both character and competence; what you want to be and what you want to do in your life.
Integrity in the Moment of Choice Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.
THE MOMENT OF CHOICE A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.
Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements — win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability — can flourish.
Make your life work instead of making life full of work.
Instead of looking at fragments, try to see the whole picture.
Our life is result of our choices.
Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.
Until you live, learn how to live.
There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you've got the chemistry for a lot of industry.
Often we are so busy with sawing that we forget to sharpen the saw..
Wisdom is synergy of mind and heart.
Our choices make the legacy to our children.
of world problems and bewilderment would be lost if we understood our opponents.
There will be real happiness, peace of mind and balance, when living by heart and right-mindedly.
Change happens at the speed of trust. (cf. The SPEED of Trust, 2008)
Principles are universal — that is, they transcend culture and geography. They're also timeless, they never change — principles such as fairness, kindness, respect, honesty, integrity, service, contribution. Different cultures may translate these principles into different practices and over time may even totally obscure these principles through the wrongful use of freedom. Nevertheless, they are present. Like the law of gravity, they operate constantly.
Values are social norms — they're personal, emotional, subjective, and arguable. All of us have values. Even criminals have values. The question you must ask yourself is, Are your values based upon principles? In the last analysis, principles are natural laws — they're impersonal, factual, objective and self-evident. Consequences are governed by principles and behavior is governed by values; therefore, value principles!
Spiritual Intelligence represents our drive for meaning and connection with the infinite.
We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.
Because of the space between stimulus and response, people have the power of choice; therefore, leaders are neither born nor made — meaning environmentally trained and nurtured. They are self-made through chosen responses, and if they choose based on principles and develop increasingly greater discipline, their freedom to choose increases.
Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.
Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly your intergenerational family.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.
Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
Accountability breeds response-ability.
Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.
Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.
To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Every time you think the problem is 'out there,' that very thought is the problem.
Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
We see the world not as it is, but as we are.
People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.
If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.
We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.
What is common sense isn't common practice.
Most people are basically a victim of the circumstances of their life. They have things like 9/11, they have terrorism threats, they have new war threats, they have economy problems, and they think, 'What can I do? I'm basically a victim.'
Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.
Listen with your eyes for feelings.
When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.
Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.
It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
Begin with the end in mind.
The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.
An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.
If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.
Leadership is a choice, not a position.
A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken.
The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.
We become what we repeatedly do.
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.
The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.
It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.
There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you've got the chemistry for a lot of industry.
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.
One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.
Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don't think it's necessarily treating people like things.
Most negotiators are trying to get their way.
Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.
Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.
I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.
In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.
Trust is central to an economy that works.
There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.
I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.
The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!
When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I'd wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, 'You're going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.'
Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.
The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.
In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.
The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.
Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.
Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.
What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.
Mind over mattress.
I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.
It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.
Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can't get creative and find alternate solutions if they don't listen to each other. There's a lot of arguing and justifying.
When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.
Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.