Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work [Paperback] [Oct 05, 2014] JOHN C. MAXWELL
John C. Maxwell
Top 10 Best Quotes
“To do well at a few things, give up many things.”
“You cannot rely on your feelings. You can act your way into feeling long before you can feel your way into action.”
“The more you engage in good thinking, the more good thoughts you will continue to think. As playwright Victor Hugo asserted, "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an invasion of ideas.”
“Charlie Brower said, "A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow." Negative environments kill thousands of great ideas every minute.”
“When you hear someone say, "Now this is just off the top of my head," expect dandruff. The only people who believe thinking is easy are those who don't habitually engage in it.”
“The person with a plan, a picture, will go after thoughts that add value to their thinking. It's easy to connect the dots if you know where you're going. Likewise, it's easy to connect ideas when you have a plan.”
“The mind will not focus until it has clear objectives. But the purpose of goals is to focus your attention and give you direction, not to identify a final destination.”
“Sir Antony Jay said, "The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a creative mind to spot wrong questions." Wrong questions shut down the process of creative thinking. They direct thinkers down the same old path, or they chide them into believing that thinking isn't necessary at all.”
“Psychologist William James said, "That which holds our attention determines our action." In other words, your behavior follows your attitude. The two cannot be separated. As author LeRoy Eims says, "How can you know what is in your heart? Look at your behavior.”
“Only when you make the right changes to your thinking do other things begin to turn out right.”
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ideas, goal-setting, distractions, thinking, environment, questions, input, attitude, distraction, planning, focus, behavior
