“Try to remember this: what you project Is what you will perceive; what you perceive With any passion, be it love or terror, May take on whims and powers of its own. Therefore a numb and grudging circumspection Will serve you best - unless you overdo it, Watching your step too narrowly, refusing To specify a world, shrinking your purview To a tight vision of your inching shoes, Which may, as soon as you come to think, be crossing An unseen gorge upon a rotten trestle.” ThinkingWorldTryingMayRememberPassionVisionStepsProjectsShoesTerrorPerceiveUnseenRottenCrossingsNumbWhimShrinkingGorgesCircumspection Book:Collected Poems 1943-2004 Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004
“Success is completion. Success is being able to complete what we set out to do - each individual action, each specific step, each desired experience whether a big project or a very small errand.” BigsAbleActionSuccessIndividualStepsProjectsCompletionErrands Book:Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success Source: Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success
“I think that people have some sort of vision that everybody is moving towards perfection, and that there is some sort of set steps or something like that that you can move through to get to that place, and that that's sort of the project of being alive.” PeopleThinkingMovingVisionStepsAliveProjectsPerfection Author:Ayana Mathis
“I think that the project of being alive is to be alive. So there will always be twists and turns and steps forward and steps back, but that's just your life. There is no sort of place at which to arrive, and I think that the more one focuses on an end point, the harder it is to get there. It's like the horizon, sort of ever receding, ever receding, ever receding.” ThinkingEndsTurnsStepsAliveProjectsHarderHorizonTwistsSteps ForwardTwists And Turns Author:Ayana Mathis