Thought Tweet #418 "You wouldn't look for good scores from a ball team whose pitcher was at odds with the catcher."

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Robert Collier wrote this in his classic work, 'The Secret of the Ages - Book 1', (1926). While I do not like the saying "There is no I in teamwork." I do like this one!

Thought Tweet #417 "The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work."

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W. Edwards Deming said this. He is the fellow who revolutionized the auto industry. Here's a link to more about Deming.

Thought Tweet #416 “He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.” #AbrahamLincoln 

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Abraham Lincoln is one of my heroes. So is Winston Churchill, who, on the same topic, said, “Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”

Thought Tweet #415 "Only the strongest survive." That's not what Darwin said!

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Here's what Darwin said, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” Here's a link to an article about Change.

Thought Tweet #414 “The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.” Nathaniel Branden

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With respect to "Change",  I think there is at least one step between "Awareness" and "Acceptance". That middle step is perhaps best captured with the word "Desire". A link to more thoughts about "Change"