A frame is the foundation from which everything evolves.
The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.
Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new.
No matter how difficult your situation is, you can get through it if you don’t look too far into the future, and focus on the present moment. You can get through anything one day at a time.
When you're ready to quit, you are closer than you think
Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way. Remember the Japanese concept of Kaizen. Small daily improvements eventually result in huge advantages.
You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.
I'm one of those gay people who's constantly reminded of how fortunate I am to live now and not to be Ennis and Jack [from Brokeback Mountain] or whatever - not that I'd mind being Ennis for half an hour. But it's been so much worse recently. It still is terrible. In Iran, they're hanging gay teenagers. I'm grateful for how far the United States, even with its crazy Christians, has come on a lot of issues. And the fact that I get called a faggot occasionally by a crack addict, while annoying, certainly isn't a lobotomy and prison.
Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.
We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. . . in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.