Arriving Quotes - Page 2

Listening is a discipline. It’s all about being present at that moment in time.

I want you to start realising how far away you are from being able to listen professionally.

Like the evangelist, I will shine with the light I have been shown, recognise that I have the ultimate solution for all my prospects, nurture that feeling deep within, and repeat the words to myself every day, until there is no doubt in my mind that keeping such good news hidden would be the very worst type of sin.

I will design myself a reputation, in which prospects can place their trust, and customers return to and recommend.

I will design my reputation and my resolve shall be absolute. I shall not give in when I know I can help.

Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus.

I will not let those, who cannot recognise how I can be of service, dissuade me from showing them how I can help.

I will look the part. I will act the part. I will deliver that which I have promised to deliver.

You’ve got to be driven to become successful.

What is the true cost of a purchasing decision that goes wrong?

In the past, I have all too often listened without hearing, asking questions when I had no intention of hearing the answer or understand my customer’s requirements.

I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.

Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare.

You must have realised by now that when one really cares, really tries to help, the other party recognises the fact and, therefore, easily sees the logic in working together for the greater good, for the mutual benefit of both.

I have discovered fallen trees across my path and have possessed neither the strength to move them nor the patience or tenacity to find an alternative way round. I have simply returned to where I came from, and told myself there had been no other choice.

Finding happiness by delivering it.

Everything would have been for nothing just because I simply didn’t listen.

Whilst people have answered questions, I have only heard my own voice thinking of the next question.

I was so sure that I knew what they needed and what I wanted to sell them that I never stopped long enough to find out what it was they wanted to buy.

In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail.

Embrace the fundamentals like the closest of friends, for they will be the foundation of your future success.

Tell your good news as an evangelist would. Do so with a passion driven by a need to help and solve problems that some people didn’t even know they had.

My intention was, only, ever to help you see the light shining brightly in front, and inside, of you.

That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever

Make sure everyone, who works with you or for you, feels the need to tell others about the incredible experience.

Adopt the positive in everything you do, for there will always be positivity there to find, if that is what you seek.

What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

The choices you make from this day forward will lead you, step by step, to the future you deserve.

Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess.

If one comes to the sense that they have arrived, they no longer feel the need to submit themselves to the process of learning and growing. This is a dangerous mindset to carry. The day that we stop learning is the day we stop living.

There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.

Charlotte Eriksson