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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Friends are born, not made.
Many people excuse themselves by claiming that they don't have to do work anymore because they are beyond it. They are simply afraid of getting their hands dirty. Getting your hands dirty washes your being.
If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.
The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.
Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on a continuous activity. Keep busy searching out new ideas and, experimentally, keep ahead of the times, or at least up with them.
You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
There will never be a successful person who, before performing a task, has doubts. Negative thoughts arise from recognizing that somewhere along the line your level of commitment has dropped below 100 percent. The winner will always be the person with the fewest doubts.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Conquer, but don't triumph.
Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.
Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.
Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It is meditation.
Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.
Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.
Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension
Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger of failing to conform to the ideals of success laid down by our society and that we may as a result be stripped of dignity and respect; a worry that we are currently occupying too modest a rung or are about to fall to a lower one.
A good leader is not necessarily the most popular person in their business, but the best ones are liked because they are respected for their clarity and vision.
You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.
I think there is a big and significant difference between being a leader and being a manager-leaders lead from the heart. You have to be analytical and flexible. Flexibility is one of the key ingredients to being successful. If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.
Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.
The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!
What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order.
One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.
Stay hungry, stay healthy, be a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go beyond limitations.
The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.
Philanthropy should be voluntary.
Create your legacy, and pass the baton.
You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
Training is what you are doing while your opponent is sleeping in.
Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom.
Assume that whatever situation you are facing at the moment is exactly the right situation you need to ultimately be successful. This situation has been sent to help you become better, to help you expand and grow.
A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.
Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.
Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.
Ultimately, at the end of the day, you couldn't say you were better than the other person because you knew you had a secret. You knew you had cheated.
A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed.
One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's minds were prepared for it." I do not think that this is strictly true, for I occasionally sounded not a few naturalists, and never happened to come across a single one who seemed to doubt about the permanence of species.
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.
If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.
You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.
A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.
You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.
I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.
As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.
Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.
He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
Passionate living is the soul of success.
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.
In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.
Successfully completing a lesser purpose doesn't feel good very good for very long, because it is simply preparation for advancing toward a greater embodiment of your deeper purpose.
Achievement is its own reward
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.
PLEASE don't ever think that you can't get out of the rut you may be in or think you can't take your life to a whole new level.. Anything is possible when you have a path, a plan and a desire to take action.
Even if you're inches away from the finish, never take success for granted.
Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge.
I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic make-up, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.
In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.
Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.
If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.
We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.
I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.
I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid before an adult. It's funny, because I was never big into autographs as a kid. The only player who I ever wanted an autograph from was Dave Winfield.
Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or justice or compassion or fairness or love.
if you play the numbers game and become obsessed with it, as so many in Hollywood are, sooner or later you have to face the depressing fact that if you are number one the only place you can go is down.
Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.
Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.