Life-changing ideas and insights from some of the world's greatest thinkers.
In quest, the brain is coherent and connected, its regions and networks in harmony. Essentially, the questing brain integrates our achieving and awakened awareness.
Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
Competition is simply each of us seeking our absolute best with the help of each other.
People who don’t make promises make excuses. Get really good at making and keeping your promises so you won’t have to make excuses.
If perfect is not the goal, what is? It’s simply Do your best. That’s it. Each and every day, make it your intention to do the very best you can with what you have that day.
In order for you to reach your potential, you must know how you respond to poor performance. It is critical information you simply cannot move forward without.
How you function during a good day does not define your character. It’s how you function during a bad day that is the true test.
If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was 1,000 miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the ones who gave up.
If lightning is going to strike, it will be just as dangerous whether I am under the bed or in any other part of the room.