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Strategic communication is at the core of effective leadership. Through a leader's use of verbal and written symbols employees are motivated or deflated, informed or confused, productive or apathetic. A leader's ability to carve off the verbal fat and get to the meat of an issue, idea or plan will find success at every turn.
A man, to succeed, must possess the necessary equanimity of temperament to conceive an idea, the capacity to form it into some tangible shape, the ingenuity to put it into practical operation, the ability to favorably impress others with its merits, and the power of will that is absolutely necessary to force it to success.
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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily.
Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
Fall in love with some activity, and do it!
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Where ambition can be so happy as to cover its enterprises even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of all human passions.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long university education that I never had -- every day I'm learning something new.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
The more you see yourself as what you'd like to become, and act as if what you want is already there, the more you'll activate those dormant forces that will collaborate to transform your dream into your reality.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. Top 100 Topics