Robert Maurer Quotes

#1. Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

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#2. What is one small step I could take to improve my health (or relationships, or career, or any other area)?

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#3. Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

John Ralston Saul

#4. Small things with great love. . . . It is not how much we do, but how much love we put into the doing. And it is not how much we give, but how much love we put into the giving. To God there is nothing small.

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#5. One night I asked a cabbie to take me where the action is, he took me to my house.

Rodney Dangerfield

#6. that feeling you might call "writer's block" is actually fear. The

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#7. All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear. But the small steps of kaizen disarm the brain's fear response, stimulating rational thought and creative play.

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#8. Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade.

Rob Brydon

#9. One of the most powerful ways to "program" your brain is the kaizen technique of asking small questions.

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#10. As you experience success in applying kaizen to clear goals like weight loss or career advancement, remember to hold onto its essence: an optimistic belief in our potential for continuous improvement.

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#11. Kaizen and innovation are the two major strategies people use to create change. Where innovation demands shocking and radical reform, all kaizen asks is that you take small, comfortable steps toward improvement.

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#12. Low key change helps the human mind circumnavigate the fear that blocks success and creativity.

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#13. What a thing it would have been to see her take a breath.

Dennis Mahoney

#14. Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

Lawrence Block

#15. Small actions are at the heart of kaizen. By taking steps so tiny that they seem trivial or even laughable, you'll sail calmly past obstacles that have defeated you before. Slowly - but painlessly! - you'll cultivate an appetite for continued success and lay down a permanent new route to change.

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#16. I can only live my life in this way. I don't think I would be living it a different way if I wasn't acting.

Dakota Fanning

#17. psychological research clearly shows that people who feel underappreciated tend to resent criticism and ignore the advice they're given.

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