Rasheed Ogunlaru Quotes - Page 3

If you have a big ego put it to wide and wise use so that it benefits and enriches everyone not just you
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Money and material things may well sustain you physically. But it is only living life from/with love & compassion - and the hearts and lives that you touch - that will truly nourish you emotionally and in spirit.
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Don't get too lost in consumerism or materialism. As for ownership, the ultimate test of it is were you born with it and can you take it with you when you leave?
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Sometimes a step back or away from an idea, task or project brings even more perspective, insight and clarity.
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The secret of winning any prize is knowing that your own treasure and potential is equal to it... and worthy of it.
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In leadership, life and all things it’s far wiser to judge people by their deeds than their speech - their track record rather than their talk” – Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Is your life story the truth? Yes, the chronological events are true. Is it the whole truth? No, you see and judge it through your conditioned eyes and mind - not of all involved - nor do you see the entire overview. Is it nothing but the truth? No, you select, share, delete, distort, subtract, assume and add what you want, need and choose to.
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Don't spend your life believing a story about yourself that you didn't write that's been fed to you - that simply you've accepted, embedded and added to. Let the story go and there beneath is the real you...and your unique gifts, heart and path that await you.
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There's a difference between disclosing that which is only your business and hiding away from the world and not seeing, shining and sharing your magic.
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How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it
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To truly motivate others 1) discover what their motives, desires & drivers are 2) genuinely connect with and support them from the heart.
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In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness
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The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart.
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We spend so much time trying to change others – in part – because we do not deeply believe in and embrace ourselves as we already are. And so more often than not we do not learn to trust and utilize our gifts and power whole-heartedly enough to pursue and fulfill our own passions, purpose and possibilities.
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Open your eyes, mind and heart - and then (only then) you will see
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See money – currency - as the flow of energy and giving that cycles between you, others and me. Now let it flow kindly, fairly and mindfully.
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Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world.
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If you make everything solely about money you end up with a very poor society.
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It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic
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We love music deeply, but why? Put simply: music makes lives, shapes lives, expresses all shades and stages of life - and even saves lives.
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No daydreaming. No music, film, art, creative thinking or business.
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One of the fascinating things about our lives - and minds - is that tend to spend years wishing and wanting others and the world around to see in us that which we ourselves do not appreciate fully.
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The pathway to enlightenment, transformation and liberation is the heart not the mind.
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Perhaps above everything compassion is the most important thing to embrace and emanate in life. It will enhance your life - and it's the one thing that will elevate and heal mankind
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Success is a trophy, a title, something gained, attained or retained. Fulfilment, true happiness, contentment.... bliss is the gift of the self-realised. That is the real prize.
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There is no well being without inner peace.
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The stiller you are the calmer life is.
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We are one at the root - we just part at the branch
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Step outside for a while - calm your mind. It is better to hug a tree than to bang your head against a wall continually
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If you are going to judge others it is wisest to do so individually not collectively and on your own direct experience of them personally. But first - and throughout - examine yourself closely. Blurred vision can often occur due to the lens, perspective and perceptions of the viewer projected onto the object that it sees. Be wary of taking to the judges seat. Above all meet at treat yourself and everyone else mindfully, compassionately with humanity.
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A quiet mind is the quickest and biggest step to a peaceful world.
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There's a vast space between being simply human to being truly humane.
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Many think that the mark of a great champion is the nature and margin of their victories and the peaks they scale and reach. That’s only part of it. The mark of the greatest of champions is how they react and respond to defeat. That is when they become enshrined in our hearts and minds – as they rise again and into the immortal pages of history.
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Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility
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Enlightenment is not about attaining an ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue.
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Enlightenment is not about attaining a ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue.
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Music is energy, emotion, expression, escapism, enlightenment. Music is so much more than just entertainment.
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Business should never be merely transactional -it should be transformational
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It is not blindly pushing your own agenda that will enrich the world. It’s is your ability and willingness to understand, appreciate, anticipate, address, serve and support the lives of others that will.
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If you must walk in someone's shadow make sure it's your own
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The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it.
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When you feel that others are lacking and failing ....first assess the skill, style, quality, results, mindset, support, professionalism and spirit with which you yourself play the game.
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Leadership is not about the power and status of one but the empowerment and service of all. That is what it should be and that is how it should be measured.
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Just because a door appears closed it does not mean that it is locked - nor that it will not open with the right heart, call or touch
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You'll find that more doors open if you approach them with an open heart rather than a closed mind.
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Gratitude for being alive is the best way to rise and shine.
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Life should not be reduced to a to do list.
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Always take some of the play, fun, freedom and wonder of the weekend into your week & your work
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Sometimes it's important to dare to dream - small or big - like Mandela, Gandhi, Winfrey, Obama, Malala and Dr King. From Einstein to Hawking - the skies no limit. From Ali to the Williams sisters - through trials and talent find the champions within. Like my mother did to raise great kids. Like the one or many who run with this. Like the unsung heroes in every city and village. Like the kind of heart and selfless healers. Like every act of kindness you ever did and received. Like the human spirit beyond class, colour and creed. Like every soul who has raised our consciousness. From one to all - love IS all we have and need.
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A few simple tips for life: feet on the ground, head to the skies, heart open...quiet mind
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It's is not enough just to follow your heart. Use it in every breath and in each step. Meet and greet everyone with it. Put it into all you do, every dish you eat and all you create. Then your life and those of those you come into contact with will be truly rich - beyond material and transient things.
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You may wonder why so many of my quotes - and all my work - is about love, compassion and inner peace? Because life is nothing, empty, bereft without these things.
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Gratitude is the best food and fuel to start the day for you. Have some at lunchtime and again at dinner too. It will energise and sustain you - the whole day through. But it will also leave you room, power and the thirst to do what you need to do and contribute.
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Despair and disappointment are the parent of countless inspired, inspiring, triumphant creations
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You will never get the best out of anyone professionally unless you understand what motivates and makes them tick personally - as a human being
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A free spirit is not bound by this, that, matter, materialism or opinion. They sing, dance and flow on the wind - for they are at one with it. They are nothing and everything - void and expanse. Even space and time does not confine or define them. For they are pure energy itself.
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Advances in technology can be empowering, progressive and enriching. History has shown this across civilisations and societies. But it has also shown, and the present and future will continue to show, that it is foolish, risky, flawed and folly without us raising our individual and collective consciousness and mindfulness to accompany it - to ensure we use it shrewdly, kindly and wisely.
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Advances in technology can be empowering, progressive and enriching. History has shown this across civilisations and societies. But it has also shown, and the present and future will continue to show, that it is foolish, risky, flawed and folly without us raising our individual and collective consciousness and mindfulness to accompany it - to ensure we use it shrewdly, kindly and wisely.
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A Star is always a star no matter what stage they are on or at
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Success is simply the wisdom born out of so called failures
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