Nothing is more wasteful than doing with great efficiency that which should not be done.
Do what you feel like doing. Don’t bully yourself. Violence will make you hard and rigid. Do not fight with what you take to be obstacles on your way. Just be interested in them, watch them, observe, enquire. Let anything happen—good or bad. But don’t let yourself be submerged by what happens.
If something is worrying you, always do something about it. It doesn’t have to be the big thing that will make it disappear. It can be any small thing. But the effect it will have on you will be enormous. You’ll have done something.
Book: “100 Ways to Motivate Yourself” by Steve Chandler
The true test of character is how we behave when we don’t know what to do.
The very young do not often do what they’re told.
TV: Stargate: SG-1, episode 1x07 “The Nox”
There comes a time when you can’t run from the things you’ve done.
TV: Battlestar Galactica
When people say to me: “How do you do so many things?”, I often answer them, without meaning to be cruel: “How do you so little?” It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
The best-kept secret today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than enjoy a pampered idleness.
Procrastination and worry are the twin thieves that will try to rob you of your brilliance, but even the smallest action will drive them from your camp.
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living 24 crowded hours of the day.
Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a person of talent tries to use it.