Improvisation is not a wild scramble at the last minute. You are not pulling plans out of thin air. Improvisation is the payoff of scrupulous preparation and drill.
Ignorance and arrogance are the artist and entrepreneur’s indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be—and cocky enough to believe she...
I, on the other hand, believe that the source of creativity is found on the same plane of reality as Resistance.
I'm keenly aware of the Principle of Priority, which states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first. What's important...
I was thirty years old before I had an actual thought. Everything up till then was either what Buddhists call monkey-mind chatter or the reflexive regurgitation of whatever my parents or teachers said...
He looks upon sky and steppe and sees that which God has created. I look and see God Himself.
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.
Discipline yourself to boil down your story/new business/philanthropic enterprise to a single page.
Dienekes says the mind is like a house with many rooms, he said. There are rooms one must not go into. To anticipate one’s death is one of those rooms. We must not allow ourselves even to think it.
And they knew that when battle came, he would take his place not safely in the rear, but in the front rank, at the hottest and most perilous spot on the field.
All genuine epiphanies seem to follow this model: their defining quality is the relinquishment of delusion. The initial fear is that one has lost something. A cherished self-conception must be given u...
A nation is born in blood and purchases with blood its right to stand in the ranks with other nations.
The Problem Is the Problem A professional does not take success or failure personally. That’s Priority Number One for us now. That our project has crashed is not a reflection of our worth as human bei...
Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.
I can procrastinate thinking about my procrastination problem. I can procrastinate dealing with my problem of procrastinating thinking about my procrastination problem.
How many of us have become drunks and drug addicts, developed tumors and neuroses, succumbed to painkillers, gossip, and compulsive cell-phone use, simply because we don't do that thing that our heart...
Good. Then we will fight in the shade
Cousin, the days of gods and heroes are over.Not to me. Not to them.
Alexander operated by the same principle. Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.