The Zen of Success – Successful Thoughts on Habits
Published August 3, 2010 | 
One of the most important and effective ways to gain knowledge and enlightenment about HABITS and the importance of them to our lives, is to learn from Successful people in history that have gone before us and become a priceless part of our past and present, and who were and are generous with their thoughts, experience and understanding.
A change in bad habits leads to a change in life. – Jenny Craig
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune. – Richard Whately
Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits. – Charles J. Givens
Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being – his physical, mental and emotional habits – influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized. – Lee Strasberg
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. – W. Somerset Maugham
And I think of that again as I’ve written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that – you know, I come from a generation that wasn’t – didn’t have a lot of food. – Joan Collins
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. – Albert Einstein
As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years. – Major Taylor
Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old – old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don’t. In both cases we have to DO something. – Rush Limbaugh
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing. – Holbrook Jackson
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance. – William Ralph Inge
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. – Robert Baden-Powell
Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. – William James
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions. – Agatha Christie
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. – Agatha Christie
Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits. – Saint Teresa
Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive. – Catherine Helen Spence
Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits. – Mason Cooley
Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living. – Mariel Hemingway
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values. – Arthur M. Schlesinger
The Zen of Success – Successful Thoughts on Intuition
Published August 2, 2010 | One of the most important and effective ways to gain knowledge and enlightenment about INTUITION and the importance of it to our lives, is to learn from Successful people in history that have gone before us and become a priceless part of our past and present, and who were and are generous with their thoughts, experience and understanding.
Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition. – Fred Frith
Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge. – Immanuel Kant
Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. – John Naisbitt
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality. – Alexis Carrel
Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists. – Corliss Lamont
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. – Florence Scovel Shinn
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience. – Rita Mae Brown
Intuition is reason in a hurry. – Holbrook Jackson
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once. – Johann Kaspar Lavater
Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself. – Henry Reed
Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift. – Minna Antrim
Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often. – Andre Weil
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. – Jonas Salk
It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It’s my partner. – Jonas Salk
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. – Henri Poincare
Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know. – Anthony J. D’Angelo
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. – Alan Turing
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. 
Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. – Richard Courant
Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk. – W. L. George
My gut and intuition told me it wasn’t time to do this. – Mario Vazque
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance. – Albert Einstein
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs. – Felix Klein
Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster. – Anne Wilson Schaef
Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt. – John Hench
What passes for woman’s intuition is often nothing more than man’s transparency. – George Jean Nathan
What’s better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. – Manuel Puig
The Zen of Success – Successful Thoughts on Focus
Published August 1, 2010 | One of the most important and effective ways to gain knowledge and enlightenment about FOCUS and the importance of it to our lives, is to learn from Successful people in history that have gone before us and become a priceless part of our past and present, and who were and are generous with their thoughts, experience and understanding.
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. – Mark Twain
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. – Tony Robbins
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives. – Tony Robbins
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. – Brian Tracy
My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person. – Andy Warhol
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. – Ansel Adams
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what’s wrong in your life, or you can focus on what’s right. – Marianne Williamson
Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That’s the key. – Jack Lalane
My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, and reduce it. And laugh. – Jim Carrey
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. – Alan Watts
Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. – Denis Waitley
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy. – Denis Waitley
I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman’s personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman. – Vera Wang
Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive. – Matt Cameron
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses. – William Arthur Ward
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom. – Sydney Madwed
The Zen of Success – Successful Thoughts on Passion
Published July 20, 2010 | One of the most important and effective ways to gain knowledge and enlightenment is to learn from Successful people in history that have gone before and become a priceless part of our past, and who were generous with their thoughts, experience and understanding.
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. – Benjamin Franklin
There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. – Nelson Mandela
Live with passion! – Tony Robbins
Passion is the genesis of genius. – Tony Robbins
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. – Napoleon Bonaparte
The law is reason, free from passion. – Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. – Aristotle
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. – Edgar Allan Poe
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. – Oscar Wilde
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. – Bill Cosby
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. – Oprah Winfrey
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. – T. S. Eliot
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. – T. S. Eliot
Fear is the passion of slaves. – Patrick Henry
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. – Albert Camus
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser’s passion, not the thief s. – William Blake
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. – Soren Kierkegaard
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. – John Locke
Without passion you don’t have energy, without energy you have nothing. – Donald Trump
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
I love to play golf, and that’s my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys. – Tiger Woods
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. – Harriet Tubman
Man is only great when he acts from passion. – Benjamin Disraeli
Man’s love is of man’s life a part; it is a woman’s whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. – Lord Byron
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. – Lord Byron
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. – Blaise Pascal
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
We must act out passion before we can feel it. – Jean-Paul Sartre
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that. – Richard M. Nixon
The Zen of Success – Focus on the Positive
Published July 16, 2010 | One of the key skills of the Successful that everyone should learn is how to be aware of negative thoughts, and once aware, replace them with positive thoughts. 
I learned this through running, climbing multiple floors of stairs and weight training, and there are many, many times when you absolutely feel like giving up as negative thoughts start popping up almost immediately, and trust me that if you don’t catch and overcome these negative thoughts in time, they’ll just fester and grow until you actually do give up.
Instead, you must learn and strive to focus on the positive, about how great you feel, how other people have accomplished what you’re attempting to do, and if they can, so can you, and about how good it will feel when you accomplish what you’ve challenged yourself with.
Also learn to always see the positive in just about any situation, visualize the challenges as opportunities, and you will find this results in happiness, as in my experience, because you don’t focus on the bad parts of your life, but on the good aspects, and be thankful for what you’ve been given. Here are a few more tips for developing a positive outlook and lifestyle.
- You have to first admit that there are problems, simple, but not always easy
- It’s important to make goals a valuable part of your life
- Appreciate your real friends because they are few and hard to find and keep
- Realize it is really all in your mind where you live and control everything about you
- Avoid any negative influences that can rub off on you, because life’s too short
- Find optimistic quotes each week, if not each day
- Focus your imagination and efforts on becoming that new positive person hiding within
- Create your life from within, and you will always know yourself
- Imagine that you’re already a positive person and you will see it and be it
- Smile at strangers and you smile affects you positively more than anyone
- Volunteer or help others and you are helping yourself
- Replace negative thoughts with something positive to maintain your positive vision
- Use the Law of Attraction – The law of attraction states that every single positive or negative event that happened with you was attracted by you.
Let’s say a good friend loaned you money when you didn’t have any. You attracted that, even without your awareness of using the law. Say that teacher, classmate, client, or co-worker gave you a hard time during the day. You attracted that, too. Again, we are using the law every second of every day.
