Jennifer James Quotes

• Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey.

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  Inspirational, Success, Journey

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• El éxito es cada minuto que vives. Es el proceso de vivir. Es detenerte en los momentos de belleza, de placer; los momentos de paz. El éxito no es un destino al que se llega. El éxito es la calidad del viaje.

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  Success, Journey, Effectiveness

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Passion doesn't come from business or books or even a connection with another person. It is a connection to your own life force, the world around you and the spirit that connects us all. You are the source. Books, work, music, people, sunsets all provide sparks, but only you can light the fire.

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  Book, Passion, Sunset

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Anger is a response that can lead to harm if we don't evaluate what we are upset about. Ask yourself what you are afraid of, as anger is almost always fear in disguise. If we think something or someone threatens us, we feel fear-fear that we are inadequate, that our lives are out of control, that things won't go our way. Then we fight. Find out what you're upset about. We rarely are upset for the reason we think.

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  Anger, Fighting, Thinking

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• ¿Qué elecciones haces en tu percepción de los acontecimientos que te rodean? Nosotros elegimos cómo vemos nuestro tiempo. Ahora hay una pizca de pesimismo en nuestra cultura. Contrarréstalo con pequeños actos de optimismo. Recoge una basura que no sea tuya. Muestra un poco más de gracia en la autopista. Haz una donación a tu banco de alimentos. Sonríe a un niño que se cruce en tu camino. Ayuda a alguien que conozcas. Ayuda a alguien que no conozcas. La acumulación de pequeños actos optimistas produce calidad en nuestra cultura y en tu vida. Nuestra cultura resuena en tiempos tensos a actos individuales de gracia. ¿Cuál es tu elección?

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  Children, Optimistic, Views

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Es mucho más fácil salirse con la tuya si tienes más de un camino.

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  Way, Easier, Adaptability

  Jennifer James (1988). “Women and the Blues: Passions That Hurt Passions That Heal”, Harpercollins

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• We receive mixed messages about taking good care of ourselves. Love thy neighbor as thyself means to love thyself and thy neighbor. Yet, self-love often is confused with selfishness and conceit. We are selfish when we do not love and accept ourselves, and attempt to take from others to fill the emptiness. Conceit indicates low self-worth and an attempt to conceal it. It is difficult to extend to others what you have not been able to give yourself. Take good care of yourself so you can care about the rest of us.

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  Confused, Selfish, Love You

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• The impression is that love is something that happens to you like magic. That love is something others do for you, but that you cannot do for yourself. Love is not something you wait for. Love doesn't just happen. Love is something you do. When you want love, give love. Moment to moment, you make the choice whether to give love and be loved.

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  Love, Giving, Choices

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks. They are not people whose lives have been calm and predictable. A life under tight control sometimes produces quiet desperation. High well-being is a life that has depth and quality. Risks, losses, problems, and tragedy add pain to a life. That pain becomes a teacher. We learn; the pain gives us no choice.

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  Teacher, Pain, Loss

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions from vague or subjective input. The mind becomes aware without the direct intervention of reasoning. Once you can imagine something you can begin the process of creating it. Executives use intuition to make many product, investment, and hiring decisions, even if they deny it. Success in business may depend on an accurate gut.

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  Spiritual, Business, Communication

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.

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  Teacher, Pain, Way

  Jennifer James (1987). “Windows”, Newmarket Press

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• The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.

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  Optimistic, Grace, Quality

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• We have so much, yet many Americans feel dissatisfied. Somehow the full table, symbol of abundance to the pilgrims, is not enough. We yearn for something far beyond the material satisfaction. Find your place in history this Thanksgiving by stretching beyond your table. Celebrate your survival by offering peace and sharing with your neighbors. Make the shift from in illogical feeling of lack to the recognition of abundance. Invite the Spirit to your feast, and prepare to feed the world.

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  Thanksgiving, Offering, Feelings

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• One of the things that adds tension to our lives is small frustrations. Losing car keys can give you a panic attack. Not being able to find a comb when you get out of the shower, losing scissors and nail clippers, can make you fight with your roommate. The problem is that we think that these things are not supposed to happen to us. And that's what makes us tense. We think we can avoid these frustrations by making ourselves and others be more careful. I like to take the opposite tack-to assume that these things are a part of life and that they will happen no matter what.

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  Fighting, Frustration, Thinking

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding power often exceeds loyalty to family or country because they create intimacy through shared ideals and beliefs, ceremonies, stories, and legends, and depend on it for their survival. The message is clear: Don't question what we're doing. Just appreciate how long we've been doing it.

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  Loyalty, Country, Religious

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• When we hold onto the negative in ourselves it comes with endless guilt. We hold onto a lifetime of floating visions and regrets about what we should have done or should have become. Conscience recognizes wrong and tries to atone. But guilt turns into resentment. Conscience brings us closer to each other; guilt drives us apart. Create a new feeling. Every time guilt settles in your stomach, write "I forgive" on a piece of paper. Send it up the chimney, tear it up and flush it, put it in the garbage. Don't eat it.

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  Regret, Writing, Should Have

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor.

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  Change, Self Worth, Two

  Jennifer James (2008). “Thinking in the Future Tense”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• Cada uno de nosotros busca la paz de espíritu, pero a veces tememos que eso signifique renunciar a la excitación y al éxtasis. La paz suena a contentamiento, que a su vez suena a conformarse, a dejar que se apague el fuego. En realidad, la paz mental te permite adentrarte más en el mundo y, en consecuencia, experimentar más emoción y éxtasis. El fuego arde con más fuerza, alimentado por la conciencia en lugar de por la ansiedad.

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  Peace, Giving Up, Mean

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• There is no way to live up to your full potential in life without losing lots of things. Yet there are people who believe you can go through a lifetime without losing anything, if you would just be more careful and more thoughtful. They actually believe that a child can get through elementary school without losing a jacket, but that's impossible unless the child is very repressed.

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  Niños, Creer, Escuela

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• Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us.

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  Change, Skills, Twenties

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• La memoria a corto plazo de una persona media sólo puede contener de cinco a siete bits de datos en un momento dado. Si metes más elementos, otros se caen. Cuanto mayor eres, más cosas has metido en esos circuitos de memoria. Los jóvenes de veinticinco años pueden recordar cosas porque aún tienen espacio vacío. Algunos llevamos a nuestros hijos al supermercado con la esperanza de que recuerden por qué estamos allí.

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  Niños, Recuerdos, Otoño

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo.

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  Pensamiento, Ideas, Personas

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• There are, of course, two kinds of suffering, that which has a reward and that which doesn't.

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  Two, Suffering, Rewards

  Jennifer James (1987). “Windows”, Newmarket Press

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• The best revenge is, of course, a good life. Enjoy yourself, be happy, be successful. It'll drive them crazy-or you can imagine it does. You'll feel so good you won't care.

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  Revenge, Good Life, Crazy

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are, assume that you will lose a few. ... Keep grief to a minimum. It's bad enough your stuff is gone; don't lose your mind too.

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  Grief, Law, Mind

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