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motivational trials teach
Charles Spurgeon Trials teach us what we are.
motivational memories real
Alan Watts The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.
motivational men often-is
Alan Watts The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate, and though man is not connected to the universe by exactly the same physical relation as branch to tree or feet to head, he is nonetheless connected - and by physical relations of fascinating complexity.
motivational war heart
Alan Watts If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or nonhuman, we must first come to terms with the minority wand the enemy in ourselves and in our own hearts, for the rascal is there as much as anywhere in the 'external' world - especially when you realize that the world outside your skin is as much yourself as the world inside.
motivational change moving-on
Alan Watts The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
motivational reality missing
Alan Watts Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
motivational motor-racing looks
Alain Prost When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.
motivational smile laughter
Alan Alda Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
inspiring kindness inspiration
Charles Caleb Colton Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
inspiring lying eye
Alan Watts There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.
inspiring space patterns
Alan Watts Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.
inspiring confused levels
Alan Watts The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.
inspiring struggle killing
Alan Watts The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.
inspiring frustration trying
Alan Watts Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.
inspiring people devil
Alan Watts What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
inspiring circles looks
Alan Watts There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again.
inspiring unique tree
Alan Watts Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.
leadership steps arrogant
Charles Stanley God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.
leadership decision benefits
Alan Autry Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.
leadership sports winning
Al Oerter So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.
leadership basketball sports
Al McGuire Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
leadership sports zero
Al McGuire I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
leadership voice ideals
Aiden Wilson Tozer The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.
leadership work reality
Chris Christie I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.
leadership health eye
Chris Christie The President's biggest problem right now is he's gotta tell the truth. And we've seen this in New Jersey. I've told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn't necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth.
leadership healthy democracy
Chinua Achebe A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.