“The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”

— Price Pritchard

“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.”

— Carl Schurz,
Union Army general and American statesman

If you only think about your own advancement, your own success,
you run out of fuel pretty quickly. But if we believed in
something bigger than ourselves, that kind of motivation is
self-sustaining.

— Elaine Chao

“Unless a person has trained themselves for their chance, (more…)

“Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake.  Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked.  We are making use of only a small pert of our possible mental and physical resources.  … The human individual thus lives usualy far within his limits; he posseses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.  He energizes below his maximum, and behaves below his optimum.   … Either some unusual stimulus fills them with emotional excitement, or some unusual idea of necessity induces them to make an extra effort of will.  Excitements, ideas, and efforts in a word, are what carry us over the dam.”

— William James

“Many give way when success is assured, (more…)