By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Who seeks shall find.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.