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Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.
Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.
Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.
If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed!
[Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager.
As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure
Most people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities.
Attitude is the ability to reframe the experience to empower you to future victories
The United States is at a turning point because of a decreasing influence of faith .
I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
I'm still amazed at how much people are willing to humiliate themselves to be on TV.
Stars are holes in the sky, they are the light of Heaven coming from the other side.
My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
i wish means: would it be nice if.. i want means: if i want it enough i will get it.
Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.
Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.
What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?
My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."
I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing.
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat.
Addiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live.
... and yet he could also be very charming, in a bookish, infinitely apologetic way.
People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing.
Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs.
To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return.
All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States.
The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
The great thing about being young and dumb is that you don't know what you can't do.
You need only look at what's in front of you and find something there to appreciate.
As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister.
...but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes.
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.
A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.
Our task in life is to find our deep soul work and throw ourselves headlong into it.
There are Universes begging for Gods, yet he hangs around this one looking for work.
I think you will agree the sign of a civilised society is a regular dining schedule.
The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.
I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.
Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.
Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.
If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.
The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.
Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
Unbelievers can tolerate Christ only as long as He is stripped of His real identity.
The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.
The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.