Morning Quotes - Page 221

There are a few things that you can do that will yield better results than doing a whole lot of other things.

When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.

It is rare for people to say they want to be held accountable, but in reality, everyone wants everyone else to be held accountable.

Bucket filling is in the eye of the bucket holder, not the bucket filler. Fill their buckets with things that are important to them ... not you.

Everything you do matters because your team is watching ... and depending on you to do the right thing.

When it comes to leading people, there is no problem that is unique to you.

If you want to make better use of your time, you need to be looking for the small increments of time ... a minute here, five minutes there, etc.

When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

You have to escape from management land and get in touch with your people.

People quit people before they quit companies.

Your job is not to lower the bottom by adjusting for and accommodating the lowest-performing employees. You should be raising the top by recognizing and rewarding superstar behavior.

One of the main things for a leader is to eliminate confusion.

A real leader spends his time fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame.

You will never have enough time to do everything you need to do, so what you need is a crystal clear understanding of the important things you have to do.

If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch, 1,5 profound insights in the afternoon (on average), and .667 life-altering epiphanies after each sunset.

The idea that you waited for that particular issue to come out, but then you planned your TV viewing for the coming season, it was a completely different world. And I grew up in Fort Lauderdale, so there was a TV critic writing for the Miami Herald, Jack Anderson, that was very influential. Just to read, every morning, somebody who cared about TV as much as I did - they were an adult, and they were clearly being paid for it. That was an "a ha!" moment for me before I was even 10.

When's the last time you really thought about what you eat, how much you move throughout the day, whether or not you feel fantastic when you get up in the morning, and which shoes keep your feet comfortable?

Thus, the enabling and strengthening aspect of the Atonement helps us to see and to do and to become good in ways that we could never recognize or accomplish with our limited moral capacity. I testify and witness that the enabling power of the Savior's Atonement is real. Without that strengthening power of the Atonement, I could not stand before you this morning.

I like to think I'm a night person, because that's my job, but now I'm a father of three. I'm trying to become more of a morning person. I don't know if it will last. I have two choices, right? Either I'm bitter about getting up early, or I start drinking wine earlier and get to bed.

When I was a teenager, working towards dropping out of high school to starting to tour with bands, I'd drive around in my VW Bug every morning before school, very stoned listening over and over to Zeppelin. This song got to me because it just seemed mystical. There is something about those Celtic tunings that almost sounds Eastern. Somehow it would sweep me up into my own little trance-like state, like Sting with those shamans in the Amazon. But all I had was a bong and a Led Zeppelin cassette.

I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. I just have an affection for paper, and that's no secret, I guess.

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

He remained, weeks after awakening, in that period of early-morning consciousness that allows easy re-entry to dreaming. His limbs still tingled with the residue of sleep, and most days he wanted badly to allow it to overtake him again.

Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the morning, and when it came, the sky was washed white, everything was new, and I hadn't slept at all.

Want coffee?" I asked, as I headed that way. "It's three thirty in the morning." "Okay. Want coffee?