Habits Of Highly Successful People Quotes & Sayings

Obituaries are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. I defy you to find a single obituary that begins, "Jane Doe won the Nobel Prize in large part because she was admitted to a prestigious, highly selective preschool. After that, everything just kind of fell into place." Instead, you will read about dead ends, lucky coincidences, quirky habits, excessive self-confidence (often interspersed with bursts of excessive self-doubt), and a lot of passion for something. — Charles Wheelan

As long as we can feel hope, there is hope. — Harriet Lerner

Positive spirit, positive strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

No one likes to feel used. When the perceived focus becomes the content over the person, people feel used. When teachers are valued only for the test scores of their students, they feel used. When administrators are "successful" only when they achieve "highly effective school" status, they feel used. Eventually, "used" people lose joy in learning and teaching. Curriculum does not teach; teachers do. Standards don't encourage; administrators do. Peaceable schools value personnel and students for who they are as worthy human beings. ... If your mission statement says you care, then specific practices of care should be habits within your school. — Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz

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"I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all," Amelie said. — Rachel Caine

What was your secret?"
That brought another smile. "Learn to laugh, otherwise, you'll beat them to death with a hammer first chance — Nora Roberts

Actually, highly successful people don't think about time much at all. Instead, they think about values, priorities, and consistent habits. — Kevin Kruse

That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it. — Douglas Adams

The information I have about Iran is second hand. — Marjane Satrapi

With his trademark counterintuitive logic how the habits of highly successful people pale in — Malcolm Gladwell

I have good relationships with Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and especially Richard Holbrooke - he is my teacher. I learned a lot of great things from him. — Mikheil Saakashvili

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church. — Al Jarreau