| Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it. |
| Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success. |
| Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. |
| Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can--and surely will at times--fail. I think we should follow a simple rule if we can take the worst, take the risk. |
| The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. |
| Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. |
| Everyone, whether cardinal or scientist, who believes that his own truth is complete and final must become a dogmatist...The more sincere his faith, the more he is bound to persecute, to save others from falling into error. |
