The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. Ben Stein Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward. Baltasar Gracian All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher (1788 - 1860) I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. Arthur Hays Sulzberger A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home. John Hay, Distichs, latter 19th century
US author & politician (1838 - 1905) Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. Arnold Palmer
US golfer (1929 - ) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Aristotle
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. Anna Quindlen | 
