"Every building, great or small, was first a mental idea. From the idea-state, it grew into a mental picture. From the mental picture, it grew into a drafting, or drawing on a piece of paper. From the paper, it grew into material expression and form by the erection of a steel or wooden frame, followed with the exterior walls of wood, brick, stone, or cement."
-- Charles F. Haanel
"I hold it true that thoughts are things;
They’re endowed with bodies and breath and wings
And that we send them forth to fill
The world with good results, or ill.
That which we call our secret thought
Speeds forth to earth’s remotest spot,
Leaving its blessings or its woes
Like tracks behind it as it goes.
W We build our future, thought by thought,
For good or ill, yet know it not.
Yet, so the universe was wrought.
Thought is another name for fate;
Choose, then, thy destiny and wait,
For love brings love and hate brings hate."
-- Henry Van Dyke
"When you have been through the worst day of your life, you need to reorient your vision and imagination. You need to turn your focus away from the present crisis and toward the alternative future of recovery. This is what hope is all about."
-- Brian Zahnd
"When you learn to truly forgive, you become unfuckwithable. Someone could be mean to you, and, yes, you’ll take defensive action and protect yourself if necessary. But you’re able to go on with your life without having to waste your energy on them."
-- Vishen Lakhiani
"Visualisation is so much more of a powerful tool than most of us realise. If we visualise a successful outcome, then it is much more likely to happen as we are drawn to that conclusion."
-- Ros Taylor
"The mark of whether you are made for a task is not whether you love it but whether you can handle the pain of the task easier than most people. When are you enjoying yourself while other people are complaining? The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do."
-- James Clear
"If you’re capable of conceiving it, then that act of visual conception, combined with your passion for manifesting your idea into reality, is all you need to activate your genius."
-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"More people fail because they are pursuing the wrong goal than those who simply fail to achieve the things they really desire. Find your destiny."
-- Jim Stovall
"I’ve observed that almost all of the extraordinary people I’ve met or read about have one thing in common: They have a vision for their future. It may be a new piece of art to create, a service or product to bring to the world, a mountain to climb, or a family to raise."
-- Vishen Lakhiani
"As you work toward success, you’ll find that some obstacles are mental, involving self-talk and negative input from others. Other obstacles are actually real. They happen after you’ve contrived your dreams and go out to hear other people say no. Or you need the money, or you need to have a joint venture partner."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"Toss worry out the window. Instead of focusing on what you don't want to happen, focus on what you do want to happen. You always have the opportunity to create an avenue to delight, no matter where you are now. Hold the end goal as your vision . . . FEEL IT, and let your heart guide you . . . step by step."
-- Mikaela Katherine Jones
"Vision is the image of the future that dominates your imagination. If you ask a man living an empty, dead end life if he wishes he had a better life, he would certainly say yes. But he has no vision for it. He wishes things were better, but as he peers into his future, all he sees is more of the same. He’s like Bill Murray in the movie “Groundhog Day,” living the same day over and over. Your vision is not merely your wants, wishes, and desires—your vision is what you see. Your vision is your future!"
-- Brian Zahnd
"The ancient Greeks were famous for burning their own boats when they traveled across the sea to fight. Burning the boats allowed them to tap into their fearlessness because it eliminated the option of retreat."
-- Brian Levenson
"There’s no point dwelling in the past and letting it define you, nor in getting lost in anxiety about the future. In the present moment, you’re in the field of possibility. How you engage with the present moment will direct your life."
-- Vishen Lakhiani
"The opposite of question everything is question nothing. And if you don’t question things, there’s no knowledge, no learning, no creativity, no freedom of choice, no imagination. So I always ask why. And why not. I ask question, question, question, question. And then listen. And that’s how I discover something new."
-- Heston Blumenthal
"Trust yourself. The way in which you project yourself has the power to set the best version of your brain free. Having confidence in yourself and getting excited about achieving your goals activates your creativity, your problem solving abilities, and a more enthusiastic view of life."
-- Marian Rojas Estape
"I would encourage you to pursue your passion. If you don’t know what that is, you need to pursue discovering your passion. In one of his most famous songs, John Denver wrote, “Going home to a place you’ve never been before.” This is the experience you will have when you find your destiny. Everything in your life will seem to fit, and the whole world will slide into focus."
-- Jim Stovall
"If you will chose to speak positive words—words of life, words of healing, words of forgiveness— instead of negative, critical, blaming, complaining words, you can turn your bitter waters sweet. If you don’t, you will poison yourself from the bitter waters that flow out of your own heart."
-- Brian Zahnd
"Each of us has so much untapped capability. We’re reminded of it every time we hear stories of triumphs of will and ingenuity—whether it’s an innovation by someone like Dean Kamen, one of America’s greatest inventors, or a citizen standing up for honor in the community. We call it all kinds of things—courage, brilliance, vision, even miracle."
-- Vishen Lakhiani
"Your perception reigns supreme. If your perception of something is making you feel bad, try on a new perception. We always have the freedom to choose how we look at something. For example, “I lost my job; I'm worthless,” can become “I wonder what wonderful opportunity is going to open up for me now to do what I truly love, utilizing some of the skills I have gained in this last job?”"
-- Mikaela Katherine Jones
"Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."
-- James J. Lachard
"“A good goal should scare you a little and excite you a lot.” Scary and exciting are two beautiful feelings that good end goals often bring out. Scary is a good thing because it means you’re pushing your boundaries—that’s how you take steps toward the extraordinary. Excitement signifies that your goal is genuinely close to your heart—not something you’re doing to please someone else or to conform to society’s Brules."
-- Joe Vitale
"Visualize one thing until you attain that one thing. Then visualize a larger success until you have attained that. Then a still larger success, always keeping within the bounds of reason and always making allowance for the improbable or unforeseen emergency."
-- Charles F. Haanel
"You have to be conscious and committed in how you spend your time, or your whole life will end up being filled with the unimportant. Every time you make a time decision, you're reinforcing what's most important to you. Every time you say yes to something, you unconsciously say no to something else. You can do absolutely anything, but not everything. What can you say no to in order to free up the time to create something epic?"
-- Tina Tower
