“Knowing is not enough, You must apply.”

Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice – continuous effort.

If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

Either push your limits or die.

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn’t keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.

As you think, so shall you become.

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow – you are not understanding yourself.

When one has no form, one can be all forms.

Success only means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.

Be like water making its way through cracks.

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies – we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

Sometimes the type of person from the old machine, who is everything but an appealing figure, happens to win an election. But democracy applies to everyone, not just the noble and the clever.

Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.

Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand – in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science.

The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual’s imagination.

If you don’t have a goal or purpose to strive for, I don’t think that you have much of a life. You’ve got to have something to do that you want to apply yourself to – that’s what living is all about.

Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence, Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.

The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.