A series of remarkable studies conducted by British behavioral scientists over a twenty-eight-year period confirmed that what we love and do well at as children continues to be our latent or real talent as adults. The lives of fifty individuals were tracked; evaluations began at age seven, and reevaluations took place every seven years until each reached the age of thirty-five.
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27. Disney Motivation
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Denis Waitley
Winners see risk as opportunity. They see the rewards of success in advance. They do not fear the penalties of failure. The winning individual knows that bad luck is attracted by negative thinking and that an attitude of optimistic expectancy is the surest way to create an upward cycle and to attract the best of luck most of the time. Winners know that so-called luck is the intersection of prepara...
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. Success depends upon using i...
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
