Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves . . . But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.
Genius...means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
- Topic: Genius, Habits
- Location: Valley of Fire State Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Conceit spoils the finest genius… and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''
A very little key will open a very heavy door.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit.