Life-changing ideas and insights from some of the world's greatest thinkers.
Nelson Mandela was seventy-two when he was released from prison and seventy-six when he became president. Colonel Sanders first started franchising Kentucky Fried Chicken when he was sixty-five. If you’re not dead, doing something new is not impossible. And if you’re not near-dead, what are you waiting for?
The courage loop creates a self-reinforcing spiral of success where you experience the reality of your 20X potential, setting the stage for daily emotional resilience that will last a lifetime.
The human brain is roughly 2 percent of total body mass but uses 20 percent of the body’s available energy to operate. Think about that. Twenty percent of your nutritional intake is used to fuel 2 percent of your body! And the quality of that nutrition has a huge impact on the functioning of the brain. This should be motivation enough to think carefully about what fuel to put into the body’s fuel tank.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos and the Dark.
The world needs you at your best. You can’t be normal, you must be elite. When you are average you are the best of the worst and the worst of the best, it’s a terrible place to live.
In learning, persistence is often far more important than intelligence.
I'm not a failure if I don't make it… I'm a success because I tried.
The soul refuses limits & always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.