"In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible … Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again."
-- William James
"When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact. That isn't everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you. And you can change. You can influence it. Once you learn that, you'11 never be the same again.
-- Steve Jobs
"Failure, like success, is a skill. In order to fail well, you have to learn how to do it over and over again. While no one enjoys failing, learning from the experience can provide valuable insight about how to improve your performance in particular domains, which may be critical to your professional or personal development."
-- Lisa Orbe-Austin
"You let time pass. That’s the cure. You survive the days. You float like a rabid ghost through the weeks. You cry and wallow and lament and scratch your way back up through the months. And then one day you find yourself alone on a bench in the sun and you close your eyes and lean your head back and you realize you’re okay."
-- Cheryl Strayed
"Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure. They choose to have the slight edge working for them, not against them. They build their own dreams, rather than spend their lives building other people’s dreams, and they achieve these dramatic results in their lives through making choices that are the very antithesis of drama—mundane, simple, seemingly insignificant choices."
-- Jeff Olson
"Think about yourself—what you’re like, what appeals to you, when you’ve succeeded in the past. When you craft a habit to suit your particular idiosyncrasies, you set yourself up for success."
-- Gretchen Rubin
"When someone possesses a fixed mindset, they believe that their abilities, talents, and intelligence, as well as those of others, cannot change. When someone possesses a growth mindset, they believe that their personal attributes are able to change."
-- Ryan Gottfredson
"An important key to success is the courage to look at your busyness and identify what it is really about. It is my experience that busyness is often an excuse, a defense, or a resistance to an important challenge. In other words, busyness is a blindfold you wear when you’re afraid to face something. Busyness is often just fear. It can also mask a lack of trust. I often challenge my clients to explore how they might be using their busyness to avoid something important, such as intimacy, change, purpose, God, themselves, and even success."
-- Robert Holden
"Hold space for your personhood. You don’t need permission from anyone else to flourish. You don’t have to wait for other people to catch up to you. It is OK to walk boldly ahead. Go to yoga. Run. Wake up early and have quiet time. Practice your art. Buy yourself flowers. Be dedicated to your dreams. Be accountable to yourself. Don’t give so much of yourself to others that you begin to disappear from your own story."
-- Stacie Bloomfield
"You must begin this journey by finding a new way to treat fear. You have to change your relationship with fear. The best way to do that is to follow through with it. This means that you must look fear in the face and stand up to it."
-- Dr. Aziz Gazipura
