Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear.
So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.
-- Michael Jordan
MermaidDiagram Comment.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.
I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Even in the grave, all is not lost.
It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.
Invisible things are the only realities.
Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.
True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.
You call it hope — that fire of fire!It is but agony of desire.
Lord help my poor soul.
Ah! what is not a dream by day To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray Turned back upon the past?
Philosophers have often held disputeAs to the seat of thought in man and bruteFor that the power of thought attends the latterMy friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter,And spite of dogmas current in all ages,One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!)
If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!
How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?—from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born.
Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
It is a happiness to wonder, it is a happiness to dream.
...but in the next moment I cursed myself for being so great a fool as to dream of hope at all.
no man can consider himself entitled to complain of Fate while in his adversity he still retains the unwavering love of woman.
Knowledge Strategy Execution
Motivation is a byproduct of action, not the catalyst for it.
Control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Today is a new day. Stop living in the past.
Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.
Your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot.
