Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
- Topic: Planning, Preparation, Time, Work
- Location: Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.
Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.
it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.
The minute you get away from fundamentals—whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation—the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you're doing.
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.
Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.
Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.
What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.
The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Work is love made visible.
I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win—if you don't, you won't.
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
