The secret of getting ahead is getting started
If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
You may delay, but time will not.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.
Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
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