Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it {whatever it is} until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of...
But the real key to remember is that happiness is a journey, not a destination.
This wasn't a hunger for a bigger house or a faster car. This was a far deeper hunger: a hunger for living with more meaning, with more festivity and more satisfaction.
Starting today, learn more, laugh more and do what you truly love to do.
you are right where you should be / now act like it
So, remember that our goals are reached by how we prepare and train in the many months before crunch time. Train right, and the summit or gold medal will be the inevitable culmination of your...
By itself, one small win may seem unimportant, writes Dr. Karl Weick in a seminal paper for American Psychologist in 1984. A series of wins at small but significant tasks, however, reveals a pattern...
"Do you mean to spend your whole life running away?" Tyrion asked before she could slip back out the door. That stopped her. Her cheeks turned a bright pink, and he was afraid she was about to start...
Here and now, with winter soon upon us, that is a different matter. It is time to begin growing up.
Money is power and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.
What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?
There is nothing wrong with you. God asks the most of those he loves best.
No matter what my fucking last words were, please say they were these: 'I have always known that the pursuit of excellence is a lethal habit.'
Behind every journey is a reason
Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. NAPOLEON HILL
If you achieve perfection, you die.
Go APE: Author a great book, Publish it quickly, and Entrepreneur your way to success. Self-publishing isn't easy, but it's fun and sometimes even lucrative. Plus, your book could change the world.
God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the IMPOSSIBLE. - William Booth
POTENTIAL IS A PRICELESS TREASURE, LIKE GOLD. ALL OF US HAVE GOLD HIDDEN WITHIN, BUT WE HAVE TO DIG TO GET IT OUT.
You may have some major strongholds in your life that need to be broken. Let me encourage you by saying, "God is on your side." There is a war going on, and your mind is the battlefield. But the good...
a man cannot fulfill his purpose if he is living for applause, approval, and affirmation in this world. It simply will not come - not enough, certainly, to answer the needs of his soul.
Yeah, so if that guy can make it in drunk, surely we can make it in sober. I mean, we're ninjas.
And maybe there is greatness waiting for you - if you only get back up on your feet and keep going.
A dream postponed is a dream we deny ourselves.
Finishing is what you have to do. If you don't finish, nothing is worth a damn
But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.
No one is useless who can pray, my sister.
"I can't get enough adventure," Magnus said lightly. "And adventure cannot get enough of me."
Each day say to yourself that you are the best, the strongest, and the most deadly. Eventually you will start to believe it. Finally it will come true. It came true for me. I am Grimalkin.
You have to dig down and find some part of you that doesn't care what people think, doesn't care if it's hard, doesn't care if it hurts, doesn't care if you have to momentarily experience humiliation,...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...