To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
Interpretation
Believing passionately in a goal is essential for turning it into reality.
This quote emphasizes the importance of having a strong belief and passion in one's goals or aspirations. When a person harbors a deep conviction about what they want to achieve, that belief can drive them to put in the necessary effort, overcome obstacles, and ultimately bring their dreams to fruition. It suggests that success is not merely about the actions taken but also about the mindset and emotional investment in the outcome.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges in a career.
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses and made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon, was trekking across the Americas. I had no training or experience and my only business acumen was Gordon's advice to take sales of Β£300 a week. Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
Quite apart from anything else, my experience is trying to change things for the better makes you feel better, healthier. Humans are communicative animals: when you do good in a community, the benefits eventually get back to you.
First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.
Things worthwhile generally donβt just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Negligence or indifference are usually reviewed from an unlucky seat. The law of cause and effect and causality both work the same with inexorable exactitudes. Luck is the residue of design.
Hey, size works against excellence.
But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me.
True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.
Planning defines the particular place you want to be and how you intend to get there. It's a responsibility rather than a technique.
The best part of basketball, for those people on the inside, is the bus going to the airport after you've won a game on an opponent's floor. It's been a very tough battle. And preferably, in the playoffs. And that feeling that you have, together as a group, having gone to an opponent's floor and won a very good victory, is as about as high as you can get.
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