Monday Quotes - Page 5

• Everything you do matters because your team is watching ... and depending on you to do the right thing.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Team

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.49, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Disappointment

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.29, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• There is no 'grand conspiracy' preventing your from accomplishing what you need to do.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Needs

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• One of the major sources of stress, anxiety, and unhappiness comes from feeling as if your life is out of control.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Stress

  David Cottrell (2016). “The First Two Rules of Leadership: Don't be Stupid, Don't be a Jerk”, p.41, John Wiley & Sons

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• You are the chief bucket filler, and the best way to fill buckets is with excellent communication.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Communication

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.76, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• Your team has entrusted a portion of their life to you, and it's your job to help them grow, personally and professionally.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Jobs

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.75, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• Your job is not to lower the bottom by adjusting for and accommodating the lowest-performing employees. You should be raising the top by recognizing and rewarding superstar behavior.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Jobs

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• Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message will be given to criminals who foisted this on America that they lost.

  Richard Grasso

  Morning, America, Criminals

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• I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Football, Dad, Night

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• He wasn't sure exactly which day, but what's noteworthy about that is that is also before Valerie Plame is first identified in the Robert Novak piece that ran on Monday, July 14.

  Michael Isikoff

  July, Pieces, Firsts

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• I wrapped that Monday and started on my third episode for Miss Match on Thursday of that same week and we just wrapped yesterday cause it was split over the holiday.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Holiday, Yesterday, Missing

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• Enthusiasm is something you can't fake, and it has a tremendous effect on everyone around you.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Fake

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• Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.

  Karen Carpenter

  Rainy Day, Rainy

  "Song: "Rainy Days And Mondays" ("Carpenters")". 1971.

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• Bucket filling is in the eye of the bucket holder, not the bucket filler. Fill their buckets with things that are important to them ... not you.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Eye

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• When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Writing

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.23, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• You may be living under the illusion that when God ignites great things in your life, He'll announce it with a big bang. He might. It's more likely that He won't. So stop waiting around for the big bang. Pay attention to the subtle clues and the still, small voice. God lives in that place too.

  Steven Furtick

  Waiting Around, Voice, Bangs

  Steven Furtick (2010). “Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible”, p.45, Multnomah

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• Every successful person has faced, attacked, and conquered adversity somewhere along the way.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Adversity

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• If you want to be around people who are positive and enthusiastic and eager to live life, your attitude has to be the same.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Attitude

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• The Lord IS my shepherd. Not was, not may be, nor will be. . . is my shepherd on Sunday, is on Monday, and is through every day of the week; is in January, is in December, and every month of the year, is at home, and is in China; is in peace, and is in war; in abundance, and in penury.

  Hudson Taylor

  War, Home, Sunday

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• People build continuity into their life: Places, friends and goals. We go to work on Monday with plans for Friday night, enroll as freshmen intending to be seniors and save money for retirement. We try to control what comes next and shape it to meet our will.

  Nathaniel Fick

  Senior, Friday, Retirement

  Nathaniel Fick (2006). “One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Columbus Day Parade was held Monday in New York. Columbus was the world's first Democrat. He left not knowing where he was going, arrived not knowing where he was, went home not knowing where he had been, and he did it all on government money.

  Argus Hamilton

  New York, Home, Government

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• Every one of us has learned how to send emails on Sunday night. But how many of us know how to go a movie on Monday afternoon. You've unbalanced your life without balancing it with someone else.

  Ricardo Semler

  Sunday, Night, Email

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• Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.

  Yani Tseng

  Morning, Mean, Player

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• You will never have enough time to do everything you need to do, so what you need is a crystal clear understanding of the important things you have to do.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Understanding

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• There are a few things that you can do that will yield better results than doing a whole lot of other things.

  David Cottrell

  Leadership, Morning, Yield

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