"Use all the willpower at your disposal to make yourself happy. Construct the right stories about yourself - and believe them!"

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Source : Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.193, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

Richard Koch

#Believe Quotes #Stories Quotes #Use Quotes

“Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.”
“A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.”

Source : "Fictional character: Colonel Franz Von Waldheim". "The Train", www.imdb.com. 1964.
“Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.”
“This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.”
“Your regional newspaper, and I like to use this example, in your local museum buys a Picasso, that's news especially if they've spent $10 million for it. But if you don't have a credit on your staff then you don't have anybody who's confident to say whether or not it was a good Picasso, might even be aware of the fact that there are bad Picassos. Arts journalists who don't have the experience of criticism, the skill of criticism, don't think in terms of critical evaluation are not going to be as good a journalist as they might be.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Thought is the creative power, or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act; thinking in a Certain Way will bring riches to you, but you must not rely upon thought alone, paying no attention to personal action. That is the Â Â rock upon which many otherwise scientific metaphysical thinkers meet shipwreckâ€“the failure to connect thought with personal action.”
“I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.”
“No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.”

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