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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by
yourself.
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
- The Arnold Bennett Calendar.
I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the
engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, keep going, someone
must be on top, why not you?.
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true
either is true or becomes true.
I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know
why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.
The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of
human failure.
The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The
Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his
work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his
information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows
which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he
does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him
he's always doing both.
I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I visualize myself making perfect runs with emphasis on technique, all the way through to what my personal best is in practice.... The more you work with this type of visualization, especially when you do it on a day-to-day basis, you'll actually begin to feel your muscles contracting at the appropriate times.
To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with
purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize
failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions
serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish
masterfully.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and
prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of
a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his
surroundings.