Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their read more

Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, read more

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle.

If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle.

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best read more

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.

In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that read more

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that read more

We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.