Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
There is little success where there is little laughter.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.
The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.
Look around. And don't get close to people who make you suffer.
I hope you're as lucky as I am. The world needs inventors--great ones. You can be one. If you love what you do and are willing to do what it really takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.
Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation
The More we value things, the less we value ourselves
Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.
Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.
Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.
Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
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