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.
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.
It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.
Laughter is poison to fear.
A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.
Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.
The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.
Is it so far from madness to wisdom?" - Daenerys Targaryen
Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.
A great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty, beauty that could break your heart.
We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.
Was there ever a war where only one side bled?
If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - Arya
...How would you like to die, Tyrion son of Tywin?""In my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a maiden's mouth around my cock, at the age of eighty," he replied.
A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)
Her name is Brienne," Jaime said. "Brienne, the maid of Tarth. You are still maiden, I hope?"Her broad homely face turned red. "Yes.""Oh, good," Jaime said. "I only rescue maidens.
Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.
Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.
He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.
Let them see thattheir words can cut you, and you’ll never be free of the mockery
Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.
She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream. Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.
Let them mock, Bran thought. No one mocked him in his bedchamber, but he would not live his life in bed.
I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.
Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.
You ought to be blowing me kisses, wench.
This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.
I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.""Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?""How else? Though not till I'm done reading.
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
What are you doing to me?” he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. “I can’t fly!” You’re flying right now. “I’m falling!” Every flight begins with a fall, the crow said.
There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.
An honorable death is well and good, but if the life at stake is not your own, what then?
Wars are bad for trade.
There is always more to know, more to see, more to learn. The world is vast and wondrous strange, and there are more things beneath the stars than even the archmaesters of the Citadel can dream.
The Father made men curious, some say to test our faith. It is my own abiding sin that whenever I come upon a door I must needs see what lies upon the farther side, but certain doors are best left unopened.
Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy." "How odd. I think quite the same of you.
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.
