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You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. - Zig Ziglar By J. William DeMarco What do you want to be remembered for? When you die wouldn’t it be great if people would say, “I was so blessed to know him/her. I thank God for …
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The drifter makes no attempt to discipline or control his thoughts, and he never learns the difference between positive thinking and negative thinking. He allows his mind to drift with any stray thought which may float into it. People who drift in connection with their thought habits are sure to drift on other subjects as …
James Douglas "Jim" Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band The Doors, as well as a poet. Following The Doors' explosive rise to fame in 1967, Morrison developed a severe alcohol and drug dependency that culminated in his death at the age of 27 in Paris. He is presumed to have died from a heroin …
“Whatever a man directs, if he knows what he wants and can get it, he will be a good director, whether he directs a chorus, an estate, a city or an army.” -Socrates (Xenophon - Memoirs of Socrates) One of the essential keys to leadership is strategy. Great leaders MUST be strategists first. This is …
NT3: No Time to Think No time to choose when the truth must die No time to lose or say goodbye No time to prepare for the victim that's there No time to suffer or blink And there’s no time to think. -Bob Dylan Perhaps we should all have an ever so slight …
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view original / .com Aug 1st 2012 DeM Banter: huge Colin Powell fan.... 2007 Summit speaker Colin Powell has learned tough lessons in his career as a 4-Star general, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, National Security Advisor, and former US Secretary of State. In his new memoir It Worked For Me: In Life …
By J. William DeMarco I hate to admit this, but the other day I was in the gym and a song by Katy Perry came on..."The One that Got Away.” Now, I am NOT a fan (it was forced on me...I was in the gym), but there is a line in the song...”...us against the …
I have always been a huge Malcolm Gladwell fan. Sure I have read the cons of his books, but if a book gets you to STOP and think, it would seem that author has indeed done the reader a great service. Malcolm spoke at Catalyst East this year on his new book David and Goliath: …
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“That’s why the philosophers warn us not to be satisfied with mere learning, but to add practice and then training. For as time passes we forget what we learned and end up doing the opposite, and hold opinions the opposite of what we should.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.9.13–14 When I was in the ACSC leadership Department …
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"It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed." - Harvey Firestone Blogger’s Note: This piece was written almost a decade ago—sometimes it is good to go back and review—has anything changed? Recently, the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, General Mark Welsh, noted: "Now more than any time …
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