Elena

“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”
― Stephen R. Covey

“No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.”
― Marilyn Ferguson

“In learning, as in all things, he wrote, kings themselves resemble a mirror in which men view their own images. The new king saw himself as a Solomon to his father’s David—as the inheritor of a great royal lineage, bequeathing his wisdom to his subjects and to future generations. A king must be able to read, he stated, for reading is the key to secrecy and a means of self-mastery: as King Solomon observed, “He who places his secret in the power of another becomes his slave; and he who knows how to keep it is the master of his own heart.” Alfonso was also convinced that history held its own secrets. A king should learn from the wise men of the past, for by reading he will come to know “the remarkable events that transpire, from which he will learn many good habits and examples.” Alfonso saw in the recounting of the past a story that could also serve to bind his people together.”
― Simon R. Doubleday, The Wise King: A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance

“As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem”
― Stephen Covey