Remember why you started, remember where you're headed, think of how great it will be to get there, and keep going.
Ralph MarstonRead
Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
Interpretation
Embrace challenging problems as they often lead to valuable opportunities for growth and success.
This quote emphasizes the importance of welcoming difficult and complex challenges instead of avoiding them. It suggests that within these 'big, sticky, complicated problems' lie significant opportunities for personal and professional development, urging us to shift our perspective and view challenges as chances to innovate and excel.
In practice
This quote can inspire a team during a challenging project meeting.
Remember why you started, remember where you're headed, think of how great it will be to get there, and keep going.
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
A world of abundance surrounds you, if only you will step up and claim it. Make life happen through you rather than letting it happen to you. It will make all the difference in the world.
If you're to succeed at any endeavor, the first and most important person you must convince is yourself. Success comes not from merely a belief that you can do it. Success comes when you absolutely know you can achieve it
You have created your fears. And you can choose to lay them to rest. You have created your dreams. And you can choose to bring them fully to life.
Being positive in a negative situation is not naive. It's leadership.
Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Donβt freeze up.
Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.
All the truly great stand-ups say, 'I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I'm doing my work.' To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.
Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
If we can muster up that degree of commitment and get away from the uniquely American perception that if something can't be done immediately it isn't worth doing, then I think the Hunger Movement, this small but growing minority of us, can have a truly significant impact.
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