For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it
into a chair and not moving from the read more

For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it
into a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the
educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We read more

We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the
educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed
ourselves to this problem before.

Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is read more

Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.

Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, at
the huge waves of the seas, at the long course read more

People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, at
the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of
rivers, at the vast compass of the oceans, at the circular motion of the
stars, and they pass themselves without even wondering.

In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the
fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective
self-management possible. It read more

In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the
fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective
self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices
and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than
to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed
through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to
use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

That person proves his worth who can make us want to listen when he is with us and think when read more

That person proves his worth who can make us want to listen when he is with us and think when he is gone.