Quotes About Alignment

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

All you need to do is to get your heart right and God will give your mind an upgrade and place you in the right position of power for your life

Recognize the call as a prime fact of human existence; (b) align life with it; (c) find the common sense to realize that accidents, including the heartache and the natural shocks the flesh is heir to, belong to the pattern of the image, are necessary to it, and help fulfill it. A calling may be postponed, avoided, intermittently missed. It may also possess you completely. Whatever; eventually it will out. It makes its claim. The daimon does not go away.

To make it in life, you and your wife need to be in the same business. That has been my problem all along. My wives didn't know what I was doing. I would come back home from the road to a stranger. That's no good.

In a broader sense, visualizations inform strategy. They are a key way of seeing the market from the customer's perspective. Mapping experiences isn't a nice-to-have design tool; it's a must-have for strategic alignment.

Personal meaning is the way we connect to a wider team purpose. If our values and beliefs are aligned with the values and beliefs of the organization, then we will work harder towards its success. If not, our individual motivation and purpose will suffer, and so will the organization.

When I know God's place, I can know my place— then things start to fall into place.

God's holiness … puts everything and everyone in their rightful place.

When I embrace God for who He is and I understand who I am—when I know God's place, I can know my place—then things start to fall into place.

In brief, leaders with motive and power bases tap followers' motives in order to realize the purposes of both leaders and followers.

Ignatius realized that if you act in accord with God's desires for you, you will naturally feel a sense of peace.

To paraphrase Merton in his book The Sign of Jonas, all of my training pointed one way, and all of my ideals the other.

If one can connect and build up enough energy, then coincidental events begin to happen consistently.

Walk your talk.

I asked,' Sybilla said, 'because I have seen him like this before … once; when he elected to take everyone else's business in hand and return it to them correctly aligned, like an artist with a child's drawing.

All you need to do is organize your butterflies.

If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.

When you argue with reality, reality always wins

Close the gap between what is and what you want it to be, between what is presenting itself and what you want to present itself. This gap of judgment is the separation you feel. You need to totally choose what is and lean into it with your whole being.

Sincere students find sincere teachers, and sincere teachers find sincere students. The two go together like a box and its lid. (p. 108)

Happiness is being on the beam with life--to feel the pull of life.

143Happiness is being on the beam with life--to feel the pull of life.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important then proving anything to anyone