That’s why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set—the set of people who don’t give up.
“Repetition is the language of the (subconscious) brain.”
― Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results
― Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results
“It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“Survival was a solitary venture, and anyone who thought otherwise tended to die asking why life was so terribly unfair.”
― Road Home
― Road Home
“Two experiments at UCLA and one at Duke University found that stress increased people's gravitation toward habitual behavior. Based on her study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,4”
― Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results
― Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results
“I keep pretending to be all of those images, and from years and years of practice, I become a great actor. If I have a broken heart, I tell myself, “It doesn’t hurt. I don’t care.” I am lying. I am pretending. I could almost win an Academy Award for my performance. What a character, what a drama! And I could say that the drama of my life begins when I agree that I am not good enough — when I hear my teachers, my family, the television tell me, “Miguel, you have to be this way,” but I am not.”
― The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace
― The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace
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