“No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use a checklist.”

“Do the things no one else is willing to do to have the things no one else has.”

“Goals are dreams with work boots on.”

“It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life's story will develop. When we make mistakes, we can choose to let them define us or refine us.”

“Never underestimate the difference one person can make. One person can change everything. Be a catalyst for change today. If you're in a great environment, make it better! If you find yourself in an environment that's not very good, transcend it and rise above it!”

“The future should look like the future.”

“No more sacred word exists in secular or holy writ than that of mother. There is no more noble work than that of a good and God-fearing mother.”

“You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people.”

“What if you stopped looking for new ideas and simply focused on the best idea you have right now?”

“If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them.”

“The Lord has promised that those who repent will receive mercy. He has said, 'Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.'”

“In order to be truly productive, we need to gain the habit of being conscious and intentional about everything we do. In today's world, we can't just go on 'I have a busy life' autopilot and expect to end up where we want to be.”

“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”

“The people I know with the best work ethic are inherently cheerful people who have made a conscious decision to love whatever it is they happen to be doing. It really goes to the notion of job satisfaction.”

“Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.”

“You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.”

“A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other.”

“All of us are interested in things outside of our stewardship, and we should be, but the most important way to do anything about them is to magnify our own stewardship.”

“Almost every significant breakthrough in the field of scientific endeavor is first a break with tradition, with old ways of thinking, with old paradigms.”

“Are leaders born or made? This is a false dichotomy — leaders are neither born nor made. Leaders choose to be leaders.”

“It is possible to be busy — very busy — without being very effective.”

“Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves.”

“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”

“Sheltering people from natural consequences teaches irresponsibility.”

“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

“To retain the trust of those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent.”

“When it comes to defining a team's purpose, the time-proven rule applies: no involvement, no commitment.”

“Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.”

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

“The secret to handling change is to focus on progress. If you can make progress on a regular basis, then you feel alive.”

“Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had a fun job.”

“There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward — opening up new doors and doing new things — because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting.”

“Whatever we accomplish belongs to our entire group, a tribute to our combined effort.”

“When we consider a new project, we really study it — not just the surface idea, but everything about it.”

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