(It's an) optical delusion of our consciousness whereby we experience ourselves as something separate from the rest. We become more human through realizing that we do not see the World as it is but as we are. No human being has a privileged view of reality.

Albert Einstein

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.

Steve Jobs

I say stop worrying about what you suck at, and focus on what you’re good at. It’s more fun, and you’ll be happier.

Michael Arrington

That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Steve Jobs

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Kahlil Gibran

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Richard Branson

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

Dean Rusk

Successful people make the right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.

John Maxwell

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

Carlos Castaneda

Reflective practioners: far too committed to practical results and dissatisfied with current capabilities to rest on past habits.

Peter Senge

Anger is never without reason, but seldom with a good one.

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on a limited set of targets.

Nido Qubein

You don't need more time, you just need to decide.

Seth Godin

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

Steve Jobs

Discipline is doing what you really do not want to do, so you can do what you really want to do.

John C. Maxwell

If you don't have time to do it right, what makes you think you will have time to do it over?

Seth Godin

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Brian Tracy

Action is the foundational key to all succes.

Picasso

When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves, we try to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order.

Shunryu Suzuki

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Confucius

Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson and fix what doesn't work.

Seth Godin

Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.

Colin Powell

The more you say, the less people remember.

Francois Fenelon

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

Jonathan Kozol

Never mistake activity for achievement.

John Wooden

You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures.

Charles C. Noble

Time flows away like the water in the river.

Confucius

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

Ray Kroc

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Saul Bellow

The more you think, the more time you have.

Henry Ford

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

Aristotle

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

G.K. Nielson

No person is born great; great people become great when others are sleeping.

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Everyone wants happiness, no one wants pain, but you can't make a rainbow without a little rain.

Zion Lee

Good instincts tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

Michael Burke

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.

William F. Scholavino

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

John Berryman

Our intention creates our reality.

Wayne Dyer

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking."

Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.

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Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Jim Rohn

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Stephen King

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience had brought it home.

John Stuart Mill 

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

Much unhappiness has come into this world because of things left unsaid.

Fjodor Dostojevski

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Henry Ford

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you’re keeping all of them in the air. But one day, you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls — family, health, friends, integrity — are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered. And once you truly understand the lesson of the five balls, you will have beginnings of balance in your life.

James Patterson

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' This method works every time.

Henry C. Link