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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

Stephen R. Covey
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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.

Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief
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Changing your outside world cannot make you happy if you are an unhappy person. The real personal change can only happen from the inside out. If you firstly create the change within yourself, you can turn your life around.

Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
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It is doubtful that real personal change can occur without the conscious and painful process of self-criticism that is required to reject power and ego.

Janis Birkeland
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In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.

Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
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The Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, acclaimed as the most brilliant and perceptive reporter of his time, writes in "Travels with Herodotus" that with every new town visited, with every new foreign word learnt, the traveller experiences small, almost imperceptible personal changes. Wherever you go becomes part of you and the person who returns home is never the same as before departing. Knowing new people is in many ways like travelling, and those who you meet along your road become part of your existence too.

Mateo Cabello, Of Mountains and Men
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To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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A series problem with a reactive language is that it become a self-fulfilling prophecy, People become reinforced in the paradigm that they are determined, and they produce evidence to support the belief, They ( Reactive People) feel increasingly victimized and out of control, not in charge of their life or their destiny, They blame outside forces -- other people, circumstances, even the stars -- for their own situation

Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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