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Making Your Decision to Commit

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:29:18 -0700

Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth - that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The Boundary Between Reality and Imagination

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:28:17 -0800

Whatever you imagine to be real, is real.

— Fanciful Mayor from South Park Imaginationland: Episode III (Season 11 Episode 3)

What the Mind Can Conceive It Can Achieve

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:26:22 -0800

It makes me think that... well maybe we all have the power to make things a reality.

— Eric Cartman from South Park Imaginationland: Episode III (Season 11 Episode 3)

Your Opponent is Yourself

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:37:25 -0700

Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination.

— Grace Lichtenstein

Enjoy The Ride

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:47:48 -0700

Its not about what happened in the past, though what you think might happen in the future. It's about the ride, for christ sake. There is no point going all this crap, if you are not gonna enjoy the ride... And you know what, when you least expect it, something great might come along. Something better than you even planned for.

— Irving Feffer in Along Came Polly (Movie)

True Wealth

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:50:33 -0700

If you want to know how rich you are, add up everything you have that money cannot buy and death cannot take away!

— Anonymous on Wealth

Control Money

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:59:07 -0800

Make the money, don't let it make you.

— Diamond (LisaRaye McCoy) from Player's Club

Learning

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:05:08 -0800

I never learn a thing while I’m talking... nothing I say today will teach me anything.

If I’m going to learn a little today – I have to do a lot of listening.

— Larry King

Time

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:02:59 -0800

Making the most of time, before time kills me.

— Random thought, heard over the radio

Making Your Dreams Come True

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:58:29 -0800

If you talk about it, it's a dream. If you envision it, it's exciting. If you plan it, it's possible. But if you schedule it, it's REAL.

— Anthony Robbins

Success is About Perseverance

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:47:36 -0800

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

— William Feather

Failure and Regret

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:14:16 -0800

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

— Cliff (Sam Neill from The Dish)

Will to Win a War

Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:15:18 -0800

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

— General Douglas MacArthur

The Definition of Success

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:00:26 -0800

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

— William Feather

Rational Continuity; One Precedes The Other

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 03:19:30 -0800

What follows is ever closely linked to what precedes;
it is not a procession of isolated events, merely obeying the laws of sequence, but a rational continuity.
Moreover, just as the things already in existence are all harmoniously coordinated,
things in the act of coming into existence exhibit the same marvel of concatenation,
rather than simply the bare fact of succession.

— Marcus Aurelius