“Having strong motives and definitive goals is halfway to success.”
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Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Herbert A. Simon book Administrative Behavior
Source: 1940s-1950s, Administrative Behavior, 1947, p. 265.
“Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.”
Stefan Zweig book Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman (1927)
“Profit doesn’t appear as the goal but as a side effect of pursuing motivating principles.”
Ted Malloch (1952) American businessman
Source: Doing Virtuous Business (Thomas Nelson, 2011), p. 3.
“the 10,000hr rule is a definite key in success”
Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer
Source: Outliers: The Story of Success
“To freely bloom — that is my definition of success.”
Gerry Spence (1929) American lawyer
Source: How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995), Ch. 14 : Arguing with Kids, p. 255
Context: To freely bloom — that is my definition of success.
The question then is, How does arguing with our children advance our goal that our children freely bloom.
“Success only breeds a new goal”
Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States
William S. Burroughs book Junkie
Prologue
Junkie (1953)
Context: The questions, of course, could be asked: Why did you ever try narcotics? Why did you continue using it long enough to become an addict? You become a narcotics addict because you do not have strong motivations in the other direction. Junk wins by default. I tried it as a matter of curiosity.