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“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. —George Bernard Shaw”
― Steve Levinson, Following Through: A Revolutionary New Model for Finishing Whatever You Start

“When you get right down to the root meaning of the word “succeed,” you find that it simply means to follow through. —F.W. Nichol”
― Steve Levinson, Following Through: A Revolutionary New Model for Finishing Whatever You Start

“long before we “knew” that the world is round, we “knew” that it was flat.”
― Steve Levinson, Following Through: A Revolutionary New Model for Finishing Whatever You Start

“We don’t have a problem knowing what we should do. The problem is that we just don’t do it!”
― Steve Levinson, Following Through: A Revolutionary New Model for Finishing Whatever You Start

“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. —David Russell”
― Steve Levinson, Following Through: A Revolutionary New Model for Finishing Whatever You Start

“So instead of “My mind forgot to turn off the lights,” you think, “I forgot to turn off the lights.” And instead of “My mind failed to transform a good intention into action,” you think, “I screwed up.”
― Steve Levinson, Following Through: A Revolutionary New Model for Finishing Whatever You Start

“If truth in advertising were ever to become a reality, the “Self-Improvement” section of your neighborhood bookstore would have to be renamed the “Wishful Thinking” section.”
― Steve Levinson, Following Through: A Revolutionary New Model for Finishing Whatever You Start

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. —MARK TWAIN”
― Steve Levinson, The Power to Get Things Done:

“We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don’t, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. —Jessamyn West”
― Steve Levinson, Following Through: A Revolutionary New Model for Finishing Whatever You Start

“We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don’t, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.”
― Steve Levinson, Following Through: A Revolutionary New Model for Finishing Whatever You Start

“We humans are arguably the only living things that don’t consistently do what we know is best.”
― Steve Levinson, Following Through: A Revolutionary New Model for Finishing Whatever You Start

“how to orchestrate outside influences to keep you moving toward inner-directed goals,”
― Steve Levinson, Following Through: A Revolutionary New Model for Finishing Whatever You Start

“after experiencing a divorce, a heart attack, a missed promotion, or a troubled teenager—that we begin to grasp just how much poor follow-through has cost us.”
― Steve Levinson, Following Through: A Revolutionary New Model for Finishing Whatever You Start

“In fairy tales, wishes magically come true. In the Follow-Through Fairy Tale, good intentions magically produce good results.”
― Steve Levinson, Following Through: A Revolutionary New Model for Finishing Whatever You Start

“You can easily stand back from your heart and experience it as equipment. Your heart is part of you, but it’s not you. So if your heart fails, you don’t automatically consider yourself a failure.”
― Steve Levinson, Following Through: A Revolutionary New Model for Finishing Whatever You Start

“The truth is, follow-through is more a matter of circumstances than it is a matter of character. How well we follow through, we discovered, depends less on who we are than it does on the particular thing we intend to do and what’s going on around us.”
― Steve Levinson, Following Through: A Revolutionary New Model for Finishing Whatever You Start