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“A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance, into more proximate events. We consider temporal distance as we do spatial distance. (Visualize a great day tomorrow and we see it with granular, practical clarity. But picture what a great day in the future might be like, not tomorrow but fifty years from now, and the image will be hazier.)”

Years Might Motivational Turns Winning Goal Views Events Tomorrow Distance Practicals Clarity Landscape Fifty Great Day Spatial Future Goals

Book:The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery

Source: The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery

“Always underdress. The goal is not to look as if you made an effort for the particular event. If you can dress for a different party (i.e., wear black tie to a cocktail party, or tennis clothes for lunch), so much the better. You give the impression of being much in demand.”

Ifs Giving Looks Made Different Goal Black Party Effort Events Particular Demand Clothes Dresses Impression Ties Tennis Lunch Cocktails Cocktail Parties Black Tie

Author:Lisa Birnbach

“Living is like training for an athletic event. You have to have goals and challenges; you need to exercise and eat right.”

Needs Goal Challenges Events Exercise Training Athletic

Author:Jack LaLanne

“Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.”

Wells Helping Shows Feelings Humor Might Pain Stuff Goal Deals Audience Week Events Laughter Program Decided Heal Beneficial Funny Stuff

Author:Allen Klein

“There's a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.”

Goal Differences Events Training

Author:Michael Johnson

“The opposite of success is not failure. Unsuccessful efforts are not failures unless they so discourage you that you abandon further efforts to achieve your goal. Even then, the venture or effort may be a failure but you are not. Failure is an event not a character trait.”

May Character Goal Effort Achieve Events Opposites Abandon Traits Venture Discouraging Unsuccessful Achieving Your Goals Character Trait

Author:Michael Josephson

“As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by my childhood readings of Tolkien and Lewis than I have been by any philosophers I read in college and grad school. The events and characters in Narnia and Middle Earth shaped my ideals, my dreams, my goals. Kant just annoyed me.”

Wells May Persons Long Has Beens Character Dream School Earth Reading Goal Childhood Middle Events Honesty College Ideals Philosopher Annoyed Narnia Grad Middle Earth Grad School

Author:N.D. Wilson

“If our goal in legislating against carbon releases is not simply punishing the West and its power companies but truly trying to reduce the accumulation of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, the main event will be in the developing world. We must use the smartest possible economics, and that means investing in China and India.”

Ifs World Trying Mean Use Goal Company Events Economics India West Investing China Release Developing Atmosphere Carbon Accumulation Greenhouses China And India

Author:Gregg Easterbrook

“Sometimes, as in an athletic event where everything clicks, inexplicable things do happen. Learning and practicing an art or a skill has always been part of the success of the goal.”

Art Sometimes Happens Goal Events Skills Athletic Clicks Inexplicable

Author:Pattiann Rogers