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You’re more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. —JEROME BRUNER
“Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.”
“There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.”3
Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.
“You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.”
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. —H
Risk must be evaluated not by the fear it generates in you or the probability of your success, but by the value of the goal.
Ed’s Fifth Rule of Procrastination states, “Spend sufficient time confirming the need, and the need will disappear.”
“When you get an insight or inspiration, do something about it in twenty-four hours—or the odds are against your ever acting on it.”
Your attitude toward failure determines your altitude after failure.
“There are some people that if they don’t know, you can’t tell them.”
“A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others. A loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.”
if a goal is unrealistic and you miss it, that is not a failure.
A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned. —WARREN WIERSBE
