Richard Templar Quotes

#1. efficiency is doing the job right, effectiveness is doing the right job.

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#2. We do learn from experience and may not make the same mistakes again, but there is a whole new pickle jar of fresh ones just lying in wait for us to trip up and fall into. The secret is to accept this and not to beat yourself up when you do make new ones.

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#3. This has to be a Rule because there can be no choice here. We have to accept that we are the way we are - the result of everything that has happened. It all just is.

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#4. The better you understand the beliefs, actions, desires, and wants of others, the more likely you are to make the right response, alter your own thinking where necessary and generally be successful.

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#5. I spent every spare second available - evenings, weekends, lunch breaks - studying everything I could that would help me. But I told no one.

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#6. WISDOM ISN'T ABOUT NOT MAKING MISTAKES BUT ABOUT LEARNING TO ESCAPE AFTERWARD WITH OUR DIGNITY AND SANITY INTACT.

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#7. If it's dead, don't go digging it up every five minutes to check if there's a pulse. It's dead; walk away.

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#8. IF YOU DON'T PLAN YOUR PLAN, IT WILL REMAIN A DREAM

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#9. In order to love people usefully you need to be focused on them and not yourself.

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#10. we all need reassurance and encouragement. We're human, and that's how we work

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#11. Live here, live now, live in this moment.

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#12. The best thing is that if you get a lot of mistakes over and done with early on in your life, there will be less to learn the hard way later on. And that's what youth is all about, a chance to make all the mistakes you can and get them out of the way

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#13. Try to see the past as a room separate from the one you live in now. You can go in there, but you don't live there anymore.

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#14. Somewhere out there is someone who wants exactly the kind of person you are, complete with all the flaws and failings you come with.

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#15. Everyone needs a superhero to champion them now and again, to rush to their aid when there's a fierce dragon approaching, a massive army attacking or a scary catacomb to navigate

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#16. PLANS HAVE TO BE REALISTIC; DREAMS DON'T

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