"Laghter is the outward sign of inward and invisible freedom."
E. Merrill Roots
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What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life." Srully D. Blotnick
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A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves. Unknown
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"Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in their head, not how can I always do this right thing myself, but how can I provide for the right thing to be always done" Florence Nightingale
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A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
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The time is always right to do what is right. - Martin Luther King Jr
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Knowledge is proud that she knows so much; Wisdom is humble that she knows no more. - Cowper
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Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. - Mother Teresa
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Tell me and I forget; show me and I remember; involve me and I understand.- Anonymous
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Management works in the system; leadership works on the system. Stephen R. Covey
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The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Phyllis Bottome
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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
-- Ella Fitzgerald
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Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward [people], but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical. - Albert Schweitzer
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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. - Keshavan Nair
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It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.
George C. Marshall
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"Stupidity is like a skill, some are born with it and some develop it over a period of time." (Unknown)
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Laughter in the workplace can boost morale, improve productivity, and increase job satisfaction, while reducing the negative effects of stress. Great leaders take laughter seriously and encourage humor in the workplace. They realize a happy, successful; workplace includes productive employees who enjoy their work!
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If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance. Anonymous
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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer
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Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Marion G. Romney
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig Ziglar
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Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Charles Reade
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Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Robert F. Kennedy
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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Value of the gift is in the Love of the giver. Ron Holverson, Sr.
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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. John Wooden
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Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
- Orson Scott Card, ENDER'S GAME
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Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
- Orson Scott Card, ENDER'S GAME
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Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Shakespeare
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"Empowerment means being able to make decisions which influence the outcome of your work."
Alan Weiss, PhD
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Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.
Booker T. Washington
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all. Vince Lombardi
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Joys are often the shadows, cast by sorrows. Unknown
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Sometimes you have to jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
Indian Proverb
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Vision without action is day dreaming, but action without vision is just random activity
- Joel Baker
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Don’t wait for your ship to come in. Swim out after it. Kathleen Pagana
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True strength is keeping everything together when everyone expects you to fall apart.
-Unknown
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Each choice we make causes a ripple effect in our lives. When things happen to us, it is the reaction we choose that can create the difference between the sorrows of our past and the joy in our future.
— Chelle Thompson, Editor of Inspiration Line
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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Charles R. Swindoll
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Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
--Confucius, 551-479 BCE, Chinese thinker and social philosopher
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I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
—Helen Keller
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“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”
From The World According to Mister Rogers…
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AORN 54th Congress
Orlando, FL
March 11-15, 2007
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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz:
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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz:
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
Abraham Maslow
Motivation and Personality (1954)
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There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
Ronald Reagan
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"We know less than we don't know. Most of us don't even know that."
Joe
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Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.
Amelia Earhart
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Block Scheduling in the OR is always controversial and requires more than a little political savvy. We have set up several systems both automated and manual. The tip this week is the latest edition of OR Manager. It has a wonderful group of articles on setting up and managing OR Block Schedules. And if you need further help managing the politics, AchieveMentors is available.
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There is a great article in the Managing section of May 1st Wall Street Journal. "Firing Good Workers Who Are a Bad Fit" by Phred Dvorak. One tip is "Be honest about the reason for the firing: Don't call it a layoff or performance problem if it's not". Further in a quote from Valerie Fredrickson an HR Consultant from Silicon Valley "Managers should remember that employees who aren't fitting in well are often unhappy themselves and may agree that they would be better off elsewhere". As operations and management consultants, we often run into this situation. Helping our clients to deal with a bad fit is a way of helping not only the client, but the employee to be more productive as well.
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