Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
Energy flows where attention goes.
To get what you really want in life, you need a clear goal that has purpose and meaning behind it.
Once this is in place, you can focus your energy on the goal and become obsessive about it.
When you learn how to focus your energy, amazing things happen.
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]
Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
As we all know, there is a kind of lazy pleasure in useless and out-of-the-way erudition.
El concepto de arte comprometido es una ingenuidad porque nadie sabe del todo lo que ejecuta.(The notion of art as a compromise is a simplification, for no one knows entirely what they are doing.)
The truth is that we all live by leaving behind; no doubt we all profoundly know that we are immortal and that sooner or later every man will do all things and know everything.
Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech.
Aquí también esa desconocidaY ansiosa y breve cosa que es la vida.(Here too the never understood,Anxious, and brief affair that is life.)
El presente está solo. La memoriaErige el tiempo. Sucesión y engañoEs la rutina del reloj. El añoNo es menos vano que la vana historia.(The present is singular. It is memorythat sets up time. Both succession and errorcome with the routine of the clock. A yearis no less vanity than is history.)
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.
