The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth. - Stephen Covey

As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ARISTOTLE Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny,” the maxim goes.

When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd.