… make sure you get the bubbling up of ideas through a coalition of energy, rather the boiling down that consensus inevitably provokes? It’s about eliminating all the ordinary, in-between stuff that is no good. You have to cut it out and concentrate all the energy on stretching for the best. Then the really good stuff acts as a magnet for more. If you allow middling stuff to stay – the filler stuff – then that works as a magnet for more of the same too
– Siobhan Davies
peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable
– John Wooden
.. what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
– Albert Schweitzer
… a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation
— Mark Twain
…what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius
– Henri-Frederic Amiel
Forget Everything And Run….
or
Face Everything And Rise….
But I prefer Will Smith’s view in the film After Earth….
“Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity. Do not misunderstand me danger is very real but fear is a choice.”
… visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds stacked against them
– Robert Jarvik
… leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position
– John Maxwell
… not the mountain we conquer but ourselves
– Edmund Hillary
… seems impossible until it’s done
– Nelson Mandela
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