9 Quotes That Have Stuck With Me

Neeti Bisht
2 min readMar 23, 2023
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“If you want to retain those who are present, always be loyal to those who are absent. Then people know you are not are not a function of your environment, you are a function of your integrity.”

- Stephen Covey, Author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.”

- Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

“The most important thing in communication is to hear what is not said.”

- Peter Drucker, Influential Thinker on Management

“You need short term paranoia to keep you alive long enough to exploit long-term optimism.”

- Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed and happiness

“Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored.”

- Angela Duckworth, Professor of Psychology at University of Pennsylvania

“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”

- Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States

“There are no practice jerseys on game days.”

- Unknown

“When people ask me now if I miss coaching UCLA basketball games, the national championships, the attention, the trophies, and everything that goes with them, I tell them this: I miss the practices.”

- John Wooden, Former head coach of UCLA’s men’s basketball

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, it goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, it goes to his heart.”

- Nelson Mandela, Anti-Apartheid Activist and First President of South Africa

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Neeti Bisht

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