“Always take your job seriously, never yourself.” (Location 70)
How close am I to where I want to be? (Location 156)
“Show me a player who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a player I can beat every day.” —Lou Brock “If you are afraid of failure, you don’t deserve to be successful!” —Charles Barkley (Location 702)
They also found that hip-surgery patients recovered more slowly when they were fixated upon positive images of walking without pain. (Location 754)
Don’t spend a moment thinking about what type of person you are. (Location 836)
if you find yourself thinking about how you fit in, how you look to yourself or others, shift your focus. (Location 839)
You are retraining your mind to focus upon what matters, which is the life you want to create. (Location 841)
Robert Frost put it this way: “All the great things are done for their own sake.” (Location 1327)
Edgar Allan Poe, in his essay “The Poetic Principle,” wrote, “…this poem, which is a poem and nothing more, this poem written solely for the poem’s sake.” (Location 1327)
Your motivation for change is not to solve your life as if you were a problem, but because you have aspirations and values that guide your sense of direction. (Location 2337)
