Quote of the Day - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
“It isn’t enough just to be good. You have to be lucky, too. Don’t deny the role of luck in your life.”
“Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.”
“Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never”
“The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.”
“Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.”
“Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you’ll never, ever get it out.”
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.”
“Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves – and by which they are willing to be judged.”
“There’s an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, ‘It’s not the right time just yet.’ There’s no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.”
“We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.”
“I always did something that I was a little not ready to do. I think that, that is how you grow. When there’s a moment of ‘Wow, I’m not so sure that I can do this, and you push through those moments, it’s then that you have a breakthrough. Sometimes that’s a sign that something really great is about to happen. You’re about to grow and learn a lot more about yourself.”
Marissa Mayer
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
“If you change the way the brain perceives a situation, you will change the way it will respond to that situation forever.”