“Isn't success ridiculously easy, once it begins to succeed? ... after the strain and sweat and pushing until the very groins of your being shrieked protest, something like momentum happened. It took your wits and your concentration and your continued willing sweat, of course, to keep it going, but the success of success had ball bearings.” SuccessCoursesEasyHappenedWillingSucceedBallsWitConcentrationProtestPushingSweatStrainMomentum Book:Imitation of Life Source: Imitation of Life
“I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.” InspirationalSuccessCreativityEconomyCreativeSuccessfulHappenedPeriodsBest ThingsApplesBeing SuccessfulReplacedCeoBest JobBeginnersLightnessInnovation And BusinessReal JobsFailure In LifeHeavinessDifferent JobsConnecting The DotsStanford UniversityTwo JobsBest Thing That Ever Happened To MeGetting Fired Author:Steve Jobs
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” PeopleInspirationalLongHappensMotivationalActionSuccessWorkEffortActingAttentionEducationLearningHappenedActivityDeterminationPositivityActivismThings HappenPainterAccomplishmentSatEnterpriseSuccess In LifeInventorTaking ActionGreat SuccessTaking RisksRisk-takingDetermination And SuccessWill And DeterminationLong Distance RelationshipHappiness And SuccessAchieverMotivational WorkGreat DeterminationReaching SuccessSense Of AccomplishmentPolymathsSuccess And LifeAcademic SuccessHappening For A Reason Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.” WantFeelsStillsHappensEarthSuccessDiesFeltSleepSunHappenedAirGoodnessLaysFingersRateWarmPumpkin Author:Willa Cather