About Mistakes: "A mistake rarely results in failure unless you repeat it" - Page iv
About Motivating the Young: "An idle mind, just like an idle engine, for the most part will simply remain motionless. This is true" - Page 21
About Planting the Seed of Mistrust: "The truth of the matter is that in the long term, those type of seeds planted in soil not arable for sustaining a full harvest are prone to producing false fruit, that once consumed, always lets the consumer know the fruit is false. Non-consumable. Have you ever heard someone say they could "taste" a lie?" - Page 50
About Truth in Word and Deed: "Truth, to some extent, does indeed provide solitude amidst the storms of doubt, indirection and anguish as well as allows humility to take its rightful place within your soul. There, you will be more human than imagined" - Page 56
About Succeeding at Any task: "Motivation is 9/10s of success. The difference between those who tried and failed and those who will try again is that those who have never tried may never know the difference" - Page 105
About Planting the Seed of Doubt: "When we plant the seed of doubt in a person's mind, we open up and subject ourselves to an armada of opinions formed against us. Some are baseless while others are legitimate, heart-felt expressions of the person levying that opinion. The problem becomes figuring out whether those opinions "are" legitimate or just an opportune attack" - Page 109
About Wasting Opportunity: "Opportunity, with any face, is the catapult upon which we can cast our hopes and dreams in the direction of our choosing. It must not be taken in haste, if we can avoid it. But, as always it must be acted upon in a timely manner. Exploited for maximum effect. Perhaps it is no secret then, that some who've virtually had opportunity land in their lap, make pitiful use of it by foolish last minute mistakes. They end up squandering the opportunity. They abandon their original hopes and dreams and use that opportunity to catapult themselves into situations much worst than they were in the first place" - Page 132
About Making Others Feel Special: "Learn to Humor someone or a situation. Anyone, and any situation. Practice it often and become proficient. Only then can you expect your own pitiful situation to change. Of course, that depends on whether anyone cares to humor "your" particular situation" - page 155
About Trust, Faith and Belief: "Each person must decide for themselves whether to believe in what they have yet to see. Me? Well I am like Grandma. I know for sure I would rather believe in something I trust is real but cannot see, than put all my belief in something I can see yet cannot trust. Don't be fooled by what you see" - Page 175
About Self Inflicted Sadness: "Most sadness we experience in our lives is self-inflicted. We shoot ourselves in the foot, then blame the gun maker. We smoke heavily, then blame the tobacco company. We bitch and complain about some new and appalling local ordnance, then blame those who voted the new passage into law. But, we were nowhere to be found at voting time" - Page 186
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