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.
MermaidDiagram Comment.
If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.
Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?
Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.
What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.[Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour, March 9, 1998]
There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.
Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.
Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.
How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.
Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
You have pissed your last in this house . . . and I don't make velvet roses anymore.
Above all he wanted to escape what he knew, escape the implications of what he had been told. And all he knew in the world about the world was what other people had told him.
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.
No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.
Maybe all he was really saying was: I am not responsible for your pain; share your happiness with me but not your unhappiness.
Don’t let anybody, anybody convince you this is the way the world is and therefore must be. It must be the way it ought to be.
Our past is bleak. Our future dim. But I am not reasonable. A reasonable man adjusts to his environment. And unreasonable man does not. All progress, therefore, depends on the unreasonable man. I prefer not to adjust to my environment. I refuse the prison of “I” and choose the open spaces of “we”.
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.
