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“All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings - it affects physical performance.”

Feelings Desire Succeed Basketball Performances Accomplishment Willpower Athletic Famous Basketball Thoughts And Feelings Volition

Author:Charles Garfield

“The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of trades is the least important performance statistic and may even be inversely related to performance.”

May Important Success Desire Winning Numbers Losing Performances Trade Rate Related Trading Key To Success Recipe For Success Traders Maximizing Minimizing

Author:William Eckhardt

“Everyone has some natural talent or aptitude in one or more areas. If you can identify those areas you not only will be happier and perform more successfully in that role, but you will also become better paid for that. Our free-market system pays for performance at some point. When you have a natural talent or aptitude, coupled with desire and experience, the result is productivity plus.”

Ifs Desire Natural Results Pay Roles Talent Areas Performances Paid Productivity Plus Free Market Aptitude Natural Talent

Book:Financial Peace Revisited: New Chapters on Marriage, Singles, Kids and Families

Source: Financial Peace Revisited: New Chapters on Marriage, Singles, Kids and Families

“Questions are far more effective than defensive statements. They do not imply agreement, but they do convey interest and a desire to understand and facilitate an environment for peak performance, a central thread of effective leadership.... The next time someone accuses you of virtually anything, ask some questions. Resolving the situation may take more time, but the outcome will likely be more productive for both of you.”

May Desire Next Asks Interest Situation Environment Performances Statements Outcomes Productive Agreement More Time Thread Next Time Facilitate Effective Leadership Peak Performance

Book:Micromessaging: Why Great Leadership is Beyond Words: Why Leadership is Great Beyond Words

Source: Micromessaging: Why Great Leadership is Beyond Words: Why Leadership is Great Beyond Words

“'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in the air. Mesa's poems are artfully suspended between lyric and narrative, between humans and animals, between Latin America and the U.S., between desire and the difficulty of its fulfillment. Horse Dance Underwater is an inventive, musical, and powerful debut.”

Humans Body America Beautiful Desire Artist Animal Powerful Air Performances Horse Difficulty Musical Narrative Fulfillment Latin Latin America Suspended Debut Underwater Humans And Animals

Author:Mark Doty

“I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the time and order in which I rotate.”