"This moment deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again" - Dan Millman
"Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm" - Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Success comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it” - Henry David Thoreau
“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence” - Marianne Moore
http://www.habits-of-mind.net/metacognition.htm
Think Flexibly
“There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them” - Phyllis Bottome
"It's never too late—in fiction or in life—to revise" - Nancy Thayer
"There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions" - William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are" - Bertold Brecht
"If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it" - Mary Engelbreit
Beat the Odds - Habits of Mind
"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do" - Tommy John
"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens" - Thaddeus Golas
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude" - Thomas Jefferson
"Excellence in education cannot be achieved without intellectual and moral integrity coupled by hard work and commitment" - National Commission on Excellence in Education
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors - African proverb
"Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil" - Bernard Baruch
Persistance
"Be like a postage stamp—stick to one thing until you get there" - Margaret Carty
"Be like a postage stamp—stick to one thing until you get there" - Margaret Carty
Defeated for legislature, 1832
Again failed in business, 1833
Elected to legislature, 1834
Defeated for Speaker, 1838
Defeated for elector, 1840
Defeated for Congress, 1843
Elected to Congress, 1846
Defeated for Congress, 1848
Defeated for Senate, 1855
Defeated for vice-president, 1858
Defeated for Senate, 1858
Elected President of the United States, 1860
Abraham Lincoln
"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success" - Napolean Hill, author
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life like a champion'." - Muhammad Ali
"To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement" - Bertrand Russell
"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down 70 times and get up off the floor saying, 'Here comes number 71!'. " - Richard M. Devos
"It's never crowded along the extra mile" - Dr. Wayne Dyer
"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Grant me the courage not to give up, even though I think it's hopeless" - Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
"Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted" - David Bly
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones - Chinese proverb
"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent" - Marlene Savant
"There are two keys to being productive. One is not being daunted by one's fear of failure. The second is sheer perseverance."
"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did" - Newt Gingrich
"Either I will find a way, or I will make one" - Philip Sidney
"Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock." - Anonymous
"When the world says, 'Give up,' Hope whispers, 'Try it one more time'." - Anonymous
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor" - Truman Capote
Impulsivity
"Speak when you're angry—and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret" - Laurence PeterIf you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow - Chinese proverb
"Its better to sleep on things beforehand than to lie awake about them afterward" - Balthasar Graciare
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Dorothy Nevill
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; the hardest victory is the victory over self" - Aristotle ... Agree or not?
"The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet" - Ann Landers
"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor" - Victor Hugo
"Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success" - Brian Adams
"The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person" - Norman Vincent Peale
"Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent" - Andrew Alden
Understanding And Empathy
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them" - Mother Teresa
"The way of being with another person which is termed empathic means temporarily living in their life, moving about in it delicately without making judgments.... To be with another in this way means that for the time being you lay aside the views and values you hold for yourself in order to enter the other's world without prejudice...a complex, demanding, strong, yet subtle and gentle way of being." - Carl Rogers
"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself" - George Bernard Shaw
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech" - Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Thinking About Thinking
"If the head is ready, the body will follow." Alexander Popov
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so." Bertrand Russell
"The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking." Robert H. Schuller
"If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination you never get there. You have to start someplace." Robert Duvall, actor
Striving For Accuracy
Measure a thousand times and cut once.Turkish Proverb
"Good is not good, where better is expected." Thomas Fuller
"Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success." William J. H. Boetcker
"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching." Thomas Jefferson
"Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good." Ben Hogan, Golfer
"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake." Confucius
"If you aren't going all the way; why go at all?" Joe Namath
"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." Kenny Rogers
"We aim above the mark to hit the mark." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves." Ray Kroc
"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing." Harriet Braiker
