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What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change.
Your competition is EVERYTHING else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on.
It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
I don't want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don't even know if I could handle a dog right now. I'm so not ready. Someday I'll be a mom but not until I'm in my 30s.
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Positive things happen to positive people.
Choosing to associate with positive, optimistic people will accelerate our positive growth.
Explain to people that everything they say is an affirmation. Everything they think is an affirmation. Everything! What you want to do is to get control of what you are saying and thinking, so these things bring you good experiences in life rather than rotten experiences.
I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but up.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pay close attention to detail in whatever it is you are doing. Be specific and expect quality from your performance.
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
There is a difference in being in shape and being in football shape. Any one can out on the field and run around , but once you start getting hit and have to get up then you find out the difference between being in shape and football shape.
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Well, a lot of people don't know this about me, but I'm actually shy around people I don't know. I would just say with my first concert, my first tour, I didn't really talk onstage. I was like, "Thank you, I love you guys," or whatever. But now I've just kind of learned to work a crowd.
There's no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.
Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.
If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
You were made to soar, to crash to earth, then to rise and soar again.
Everybody wants to reach the top of the mountain, but there is no growth at the peak. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.
I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.
I cannot - nor will not - be ordinary. I have to keep training and seeking and growing. I have to stay hungry. It is my will and so has become my nature.
Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them, day after day. What you promise today must be renewed and redecided tomorrow and each day that stretches out before you.
People want to do business with someone they like. If people like you, they're going to want to do business with you. And if they don't you're going to have an almost insurmountable obstacle to overcome.
The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.
I never got along with my dad. Kids used to come up to me and say, 'My dad can beat up your dad.' I'd say 'Yeah? When?'
It's not tough at all as long as the fans are yelling, screaming and hollering.
Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!
I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you've been beaten down a few times.
I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.
The best director is the one you don't see.
Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?
When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.
You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly for seven miles. Smooth water doesn't hurt either.
Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough. It’s going to bed at night thinking, Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.
If you do not have goals of your own you are doomed forever to work to achieve the goals of someone else.
Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness
The law of cause and effect: If you do what other successful people do, you will eventually get the results that other successful people get.
Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right.
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.
A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.
Fear is part of the process. If you weren't scared, you'd be in trouble.
Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.
Be happy, but never satisfied.
‎The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature...
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Shoot for the stars. You may not get the stars-but you may get the moon.
You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.
Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.
Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.
If you're waiting for someone to believe in you, you'll be waiting forever. You must believe in yourself.
It's easier to limit yourself, but if you do, you will never reach your true potential.
The key is to trust in your preparation. You have done all you can, so focus on that fact. You will remain the same person before, during and after the race, so the result, however important, will not define you. The journey is what matters.
History remembers most what you did last.
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
People whine, 'I haven't succeeded because I haven't had the breaks.' You create your own breaks.
The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.
Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.
You are not what you think you are, but WHAT YOU THINK, the thoughts that habitually possess your mind, that is what you are
Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.
As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.
Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
If you want to take care of tomorrow, take better care of today. We always live now. All we have to do is entrust ourselves to the life we now live.
The enemy is a very good teacher.
It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view.
The only way on Earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.
Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step...the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?"
When we stage the Olympics it will inspire kids all over the country. A kid in Scotland or Ireland will be encouraged to take up sport.
I would rather sleep only five hours and wake up at 5 or 5:30 a.m. and be in control of my time than to sleep later and spend the entire day controlled by time.
Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.
Continual learning is the key to continual living.
Our expectations determine how we respond. Be careful what you expect.
It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.
Were born to be players, not pawns.
You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.
I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.
You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.
Today, financial capital is no longer the key asset. It is human capital. Success is no longer about economic competence as the main leverage. It is about emotional intelligence. It is no longer about controls. It is about collaboration. It is no longer about hierarchies. It is about leading through networks. It is no longer about aligning people through structures and spreadsheets. It is about aligning them through meaning and purpose. It is no longer about developing followers. It is about developing leaders.