The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead
of having pain and pleasure use you. read more

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead
of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of
your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is
so constituted as to maximize play. The best read more

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is
so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which
all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in
which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is
designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and
uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We
survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it
any other way.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good read more

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can
get with just a kind word.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can
get with just a kind word.

When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland,
we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's read more

When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland,
we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions
is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be read more

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.