Listen To See If You Can Learn Something

"Ken Blanchard said, 'I go out into the world every day wit the attitude that my "okayness" is not up for grabs. That doesn't mean I don't have areas of my life that need improvement-just that at my basic core, I'm okay. If people give me negative feedback, or criticize something I do, my self-esteem permits me to listen in a non-defensive way-looking to see if there is something I can learn.'"

-- Mac Anderson, author
Charging the Human Battery


"What a man this of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate."

-- Henry David Thoreau


"Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them."

-- Fanny Jackson Coppin