You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.
If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?
It doesn't matter where you came from, it doesn't matter how poor you are, it doesn't matter where your family was. It all doesn't matter. You can achieve anything if you have really clear goals and if you work really hard to learn what you need to learn.
The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.
Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.
Take a deep breath, relax and imagine yourself exactly as you wish to be.
The Independent Record Store is the reason why i STILL do music. . . It seems like they're the only ones that Really care about the real music lovers. . . we need them. . . they're our balance to all of the music we are FORCED to listen to. . . they're the only ones that may still suggest something NEW and FRESH instead of just what's popular.
All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the top.
It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.
You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact if you look at evolution on a bigger scale, cosmic evolution and you look at culture evolution you see it jumps, it goes through phase changes, and that's very exciting.