“We will react to old wounds and fears in the same way again and again unless we make a conscious choice to break them.”
“Performance yields compounded growth.Ordinary becomes outstanding just by ounce of performance.”
“Most of our battle is asking the right question. Growth always requires the questioning of one’s current position.”
“A perceived failure is really a lesson for success.”
“The truth is that we are all able to accept love into our lives but many people aren’t actually willing to.”
“Boredom creates breakthroughs.”
“your self-concept is composed by all beliefs and attitudes you have about your-self, it determines what you think you are, what you can do and what you can become”
“The Person inside you always reflects people out side you. but the vice-versa never happens.”
“Some artist s greatest work is their own persona and I can only think of what a fleeting and impermanent canvas they ve chosen.”
“Just because someone doesn t like what you do doesn t mean no one else will. A person s opinion is not The Truth, it s their truth.”
“Personal disruption is the vehicle through which success and economic growth travels”
“The biggest advantage of building a strong personal brand is that you get to be true to yourself, live your values and be acknowledged for what you do and believe. Your brand is a pathway to true personal power and success.”
“The best way to drive performance in an organization is to create an environment in which information can flow freely, mistakes can be highlighted and help can be offered and received.”
“But that shadow has been serving you! What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest. You must have shadow and light source both. Listen, and lay your head under the tree of awe.”
“Gratitude is a feedback loop that will show you where you are thriving.”
“London has swallowed up many millions of young men called Smith... Lodging off the Euston Road, there were experiences, again experiences, such as change a face in two years from a pink innocent oval to a face lean, contracted, hostile. But of all this what could the most observant of friends have said except what a gardener says when he opens the conservatory door in the morning and finds a new blossom on his plant: — It has flowered; flowered from vanity, ambition, idealism, passion, loneliness, courage, laziness, the usual seeds, which all muddled up (in a room off the Euston Road), made him shy, and stammering, made him anxious to improve himself, made him fall in love with Miss Isabel Pole, lecturing in the Waterloo Road upon Shakespeare. Was he not like Keats? she asked; and reflected how she might give him a taste of Antony and Cleopatra and the rest; lent him books; wrote him scraps of letters; and lit in him such a fire as burns only once in a lifetime, without heat, flickering a red gold flame infinitely ethereal and insubstantial over Miss Pole; Antony and Cleopatra; and the Waterloo Road. He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink; he saw her, one summer evening, walking in a green dress in a in a green dress in a square. ‘It has flowered,’ the gardener might have said, had he opened the door; had he come in, that is to say, any night about this time, and found him writing; found him tearing up his writing; found him finishing a masterpiece at three o clock in the morning and running out to pace the streets, and visiting churches, and fasting one day, drinking another, devouring Shakespeare, Darwin, The History of Civilisation, and Bernard Shaw.”
“I’ve made a ton of mistakes that never turned into failures because I learned from them before they got that far.”