"Be the master of your attention. The price of freedom is to be permanently alert. Remember that wherever your attention may wander, your emotions and energy will also go. Where you place your attention will always make it more real for you."
-- Mario Alonso Puig
"“Some day my prince will come.…” Good old Walt Disney. Well, that may have worked out for Snow White. Back here on Earth, it’s a recipe for disappointment. In flesh-and-blood life, waiting for “some day” is no strategy for success, it’s a cop-out. What’s more, it’s one that the majority follow their whole lives."
-- Jeff Olson
"Success in life is not just a matter of rising to your potential but also discovering that you have more potential than you ever dreamed about. Success in life is having deep, loving, and mutual relationships with others. Success in life is learning and developing to the point that you will seamlessly do the right thing, even if it’s not the easy thing."
-- Ryan Gottfredson
"We don’t have much control over what happens, but we can choose how we relate to what happens."
-- Marilee Adams
"Sometimes the path of success is inconvenient, and therefore not just easy not to do but actually easier not to do. For most people, it’s easier to stay in bed. Getting on the path and staying on the path requires faith in the process—especially at the start. That makes you a pioneer."
-- Jeff Olson
“I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.”
-- Coleman Cox
"And it’s hard to imagine just what our lives would be like today if Thomas Edison had subscribed to the failure is not an option philosophy. In his efforts to find a stable filament to make his electric light bulb invention work, he tried out thousands of different versions and every single one failed. His famous comment: “I have not failed. I’ve simply discovered ten thousand ways that don’t work." Successful people fail their way to the top."
-- Jeff Olson
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
-- Viktor E. Frankl
“Authentic listening is not easy. We hear the words, but rarely do we really slow down to listen and to squint with our ears, to hear the emotions, fears, and underlying concerns.”
-- Kevin Cashman
“Taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgements gives you the power to change them.”
-- Byron Katie
