

“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.â€� —F. M. Alexander”
― The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results
― The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

“Creative people, as I see them, are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of the “divine madness,â€� to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks. They do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. They knock on silence for an answering music; they pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.”
― The Courage to Create
― The Courage to Create

“developing tolerance for imperfection is the key factor in turning chronic starters into consistent finishers.”
― Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done
― Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done

“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work â€� as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for â€� the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?â€�
So you were born to feel “nice�? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?
You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you.”
― Meditations
So you were born to feel “nice�? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?
You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you.”
― Meditations

“If you want a new outcome, you will have to break the habit of being yourself, and reinvent a new self.”
― Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
― Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
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