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“No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.”
― P.T. Barnum

“The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“We can either make our choices deliberately or allow other people’s agendas to control our lives.”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“Remember that if you don’t prioritize your life someone else will.”
― Greg Mckeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“It's easier to hold your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold them 98 percent of the time.”
― Clayton M. Christensen, How Will You Measure Your Life?

“In your life, there are going to be constant demands for your time and attention. How are you going to decide which of those demands gets resources? The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward. That’s a dangerous way to build a strategy.”
― Clayton M. Christensen, How Will You Measure Your Life?

“I had thought the destination was what was important, but it turned out it was the journey.”
― Clayton M. Christensen, How Will You Measure Your Life?

“Data is always an abstraction of reality based on underlying assumptions as to how to categorize the unstructured phenomena of the real world.”
― Clayton M. Christensen, Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice – Christensen's Jobs Theory for Startups and Business Growth

“None of that data, however, actually tells you why customers make the choices that they do.”
― Clayton M. Christensen, Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice – Christensen's Jobs Theory for Startups and Business Growth

“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“New products succeed not because of the features and functionality they offer but because of the experiences they enable. If”
― Clayton M. Christensen, Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice – Christensen's Jobs Theory for Startups and Business Growth

“When man created the mirror, he began to lose his soul. He became more concerned with his image than with his self.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 3rd Alternative: Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson

“People trust those who understand them, and they trust brands that understand them too.”
― Donald Miller, Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

“The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate.”
― Sandra Boynton

“There’s nine times more to gain by elevating positive customers than by eliminating negative ones.”
― Chip Heath, The Power of Moments: Why Certain Moments Have Extraordinary Impact

“from a customer’s perspective, when something goes wrong, the overriding sentiment is: Help me fix it.”
― Matthew Dixon, The Effortless Experience: Conquering the New Battleground for Customer Loyalty

“the role of customer service is to mitigate disloyalty by reducing customer effort.”
― Matthew Dixon, The Effortless Experience: Conquering the New Battleground for Customer Loyalty

“You need to give your customers fewer reasons to be disloyal, and the best way to make that happen is to reduce customer effort.”
― Matthew Dixon, The Effortless Experience: Conquering the New Battleground for Customer Loyalty

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
― Winston Churchill

“The covers of this book are too far apart.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“I don't view it as mystic. I believe that God is our father. He created us. He is powerful because he knows everything. Therefore everything I learn that is true makes me more like my father in heaven. When science seems to contradict religion, then one, the other, or both are wrong, or incomplete. Truth is not incompatible with itself. When I benefit from science it's actually not correct for me to say it resulted from science and not from God. They work in concert.”
― Clayton M. Christensen

“What if we stopped celebrating being busy as a measurement of importance? What if instead we celebrated how much time we had spent listening, pondering, meditating, and enjoying time with the most important people in our lives?”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“What do I feel deeply inspired by?” and “What am I particularly talented at?” and “What meets a significant need in the world?”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“God left us the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity in the cloud, the oil in the earth. He left the rivers unbridged and the forests unfelled and the cities unbuilt. God gives to man the challenge of raw materials, not the ease of unfinished things. He leaves the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation.”
― Thomas S. Monson

“God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“Never give up what you want most for what you want today.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.”
― Neal A. Maxwell