success

"Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions."

"Everyone else trains just as hard as well and that there really is no such a thing as overnight success."

"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion."

"Start shaping your own day. Start walking your own walk. This journey is yours, take charge of it. Stop giving other people the power to shape your life."

"The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts; it gives you what you demand with your actions. In essence, you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE."

"The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you."

"It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be."

"Destiny, Talent, Calling, purpose. each of us came with our Talents, Purpose and Calling. What you do with them is the summary of your life here on earth."

"For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?"

"The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings."

"Each new friend gives rise to the possibility of anything!"

"Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business."

"If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment."

"To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great."

"What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace"

"Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present."

"Even when in the midst of disturbance, the stillness of the mind can offer sanctuary."

"Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person."

"When you use Cosmic Ordering you will move from cloud nine to cloud ten."

"There are three types of people in this world. Firstly, there are people who make things happen. Then there are people who watch things happen. Lastly, there are people who ask, what happened? Which do you want to be?"