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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked…
— John Lennon
On Purpose
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
— Mozart
On Focus & Distraction
It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given…
— Mozart
On Discipline
We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion.
— Mozart
On the Working Life
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
— Mozart
On Confidence
Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
— Coco Chanel
On Confidence
Elegance is refusal.
— Coco Chanel
On Focus & Distraction
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
— Coco Chanel
On Starting Over
In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.
— Coco Chanel
On Confidence
We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.
— Stephen King
On Purpose
Description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the reader's.
— Stephen King
On Focus & Distraction
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
— Stephen King
On Focus & Distraction
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time — or the tools — to write. Simple as that.
— Stephen King
On Discipline
The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.
— Stephen King
On Starting Over
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
— Stephen King
On Discipline
Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating the talents of those who work for us and pointing them towa…
— Walt Disney
On the Working Life
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
— Walt Disney
On Confidence
I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing — that it was all started by a mouse.
— Walt Disney
On Starting Over
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
— Walt Disney
On Confidence
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.
— Marie Curie
On Purpose
I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
— Marie Curie
On Purpose
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We m…
— Marie Curie
On Confidence
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
— Marie Curie
On Starting Over
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
— Marie Curie
On Discipline
It's all happening.
— Cameron Crowe
On Focus & Distraction
Tell me how's your father.
— Cameron Crowe
On the Working Life
In that moment, I swear we were infinite.
— Stephen Chbosky
On Confidence
We accept the love we think we deserve.
— Stephen Chbosky
On the Working Life
I wish it need not have happened in my time.
— Fran Walsh
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
You shall not pass!
— Fran Walsh
On Confidence