“Those who only do what they feel like, don't do much. To be successful at anything you must take action even when you don't feel like it, knowing it is the action itself that will produce the motivation you need to follow through.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsActionMotivationKnowingSuccessfulProduceBeing SuccessfulFollow ThroughThinking Differently Author:Hal Elrod
“For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?” WritingYearsArtIdeasFeltTalkingKnowingProduceDrawsCriticsNo IdeaMistrustRhymingCouplets Author:Adam Gopnik
“Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or knowing it. The real point is not that each individual's pursuit of his private interest promotes the totality of private interests, the general interest. One could just as well deduce from this abstract phrase that each individual reciprocally blocks the assertion of the others' interests, so that, instead of a general affirmation, this war of all against all produces a general negation.” WellsWarRealIndividualInterestKnowingProduceWillingPursuitPursueBlockPhrasesAbstractAffirmationAssertionTotalityNegation Author:Karl Marx
“If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.” IfsThinkingShouldWritingFirstsPersonsIdeasCharacterWould BeRunningSchoolMovingLinesPerfectHellKnowingFourProduceTypePagesCapableHundredHigh SchoolDespiseGraduatesTrappedTenseFirst PersonProtagonistsMonologuesGraduating High School Author:Craig Johnson
“Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion. Opinions are easy to produce, so bad ones abound. Knowing that you don't know something is nearly as valuable as knowing it. The worst situation is thinking you know something when you don't.” ThinkingKnowsLifeAsksEasyGrowthSituationOpinionKnowingWorstProducePersonal GrowthInvestingValuableWorst Situation Author:Ray Dalio
“I'm disciplined about writing. I get up every day knowing I have to produce work. I'm less concerned about other aspects of the job, such as the prizes and promotions. Promoting my work can be awkward, unless I feel sociable enough. Prizes encourage me to work harder on my next project.” FeelsWritingEnoughJobsNextKnowingProduceHard WorkProjectsConcernedAspectHarderGet UpPrizeAwkwardPromotingPromotionWork HarderSociable Author:Sefi Atta
“If a man has no worries about himself at all for the sake of love toward God and the working of good deeds, knowing that God is taking care of him, this is a true and wise hope. But if a man takes care of his own business and turns to God in prayer only when misfortunes come upon him which are beyond his power, and then he begins to hope in God, such a hope is vain and false. A true hope seeks only the Kingdom of God... the heart can have no peace until it obtains such a hope. This hope pacifies the heart and produces joy within it.” IfsMenInspirationalHeartCareChristianJoyTurnsReligiousPrayerWorryKnowingWiseProduceSakeDeedsTake CareKingdomsVainOrthodoxMisfortunesGood DeedsKingdom Of GodOwn BusinessNo WorriesTurn To GodJoy WithinHope In God Author:Seraphim of Sarov
“Discipline, as understood by a warrior, is creative, open, and produces freedom. It is the ability to face the unknown, transforming the feeling of knowing into reverent astonishment; of considering things that exceed the scope of our habits, and daring to face the only war that is worthwhile: The battle for awareness.” WarFeelingsFacesAbilityCreativeKnowingAwarenessProduceHabitDisciplineBattleUnderstoodWarriorWorthwhileDaringConsideringScopeExceedTransformingAstonishment Author:Carlos Castaneda