Bert Webb > Bert Webb's Quotes

“checklists seem able to defend anyone, even the experienced, against failure in many more tasks than we realized. They provide a kind of cognitive net. They catch mental flaws inherent in all of us—flaws of memory and attention and thoroughness. And because they do, they raise wide, unexpected possibilities. But”
― Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

“Perhaps the most important insight of all with regard to success is that to achieve greatly, you must become a different person. It is not the material things you accomplish or acquire that matter so much as it is the quality of the person you must become to accomplish well above the average. The development of self-discipline is the high road that makes everything possible for you.”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

“Forty percent of teachers spend more time keeping order than teaching (Johnson, 2004).”
― Lee Canter, Assertive Discipline: Positive Behavior Management for Today's Classroom

“Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“With self-discipline almost anything can be achieved in every aspect of life.”
― Lee Cockerell, Time Management Magic: How To Get More Done Every Day And Move From Surviving To Thriving

“Surround yourself with great people.”
― Lee Cockerell, Time Management Magic: How To Get More Done Every Day And Move From Surviving To Thriving

“God comes alongside us when we go through hard times, and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was there for us.-2 Corinthians 1:4”
― Eugene H. Peterson, The Message Promise Book

“Don’t talk about the size of your problem. Talk about the size of your God.”
― Joel Osteen, The Power of I Am: Two Words That Will Change Your Life Today

“I am not who people say I am. I am who God says I am.”
― Joel Osteen, The Power of I Am: Two Words That Will Change Your Life Today

“How shall we live in order to be happy?” Your ability to ask and answer that question correctly for yourself—and then to follow where your answer leads you—will largely determine whether you achieve your own happiness, and how soon.”
― Brian Tracy, No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline