“The 2nd secret to success is to be emotionally 'engaged' with your goals, but not emotionally attached. What's the difference? When you are emotionally engaged you create excitement & enthusiasm for the possibility of achieving your goals, but when you are emotionally attached you create fear & pain that you might not.” MightPainSuccessGoalDifferencesSecretAchievePossibilityEnthusiasmExcitementEngagedSecret To SuccessAchieving Your Goals Author:Hal Elrod
“The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.” DreamLyingHopeAchieveStriveExcitementAttainmentExcitement Of Life Author:Barbra Streisand
“What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wrong way is also a possible and a natural way, nay, more, a menacing and an imminent way? And what sense can there be in condemning ourselves for taking the wrong way, unless we need have done nothing of the sort, unless the right way was open to us as well? I cannot understand the willingness to act, no matter how we feel, without the belief that acts are really good and bad.” WayNeedsFeelsWellsMatterDoneBeliefInterestNaturalAchieveExcitementWillingnessRight WayGood And BadWrong WayCondemningZest Book:Essays in Pragmatism Source: Essays in Pragmatism
“Life purpose may be shifted from achieving a 'steady state' (an equilibrium between desires and plausibilities) to the excitement of running after novelties. In other words, be guided by new desires, not by extant needs.” NeedsMayStatesRunningDesirePurposeAchieveExcitementPurpose Of LifeSteadyNoveltyEquilibrium Author:Zygmunt Bauman