- Use your imagination. Try to work out things on your own. Try to invent the machine in your mind. Then seek out the facts to check your imagination.
- Always be ready to learn. However knowledgeable and experienced you may be, you can still learn something new.
- An alert, attentive mind gives you the means of improving yourself, for it demonstrates your intelligence and enables you to see and grasp opportunities that a less lively mind would not spot.
- What is holding you back? If you have a "Grasshopper Mind" you know that this is true. And you know why it is true. Even the blazing sun can't burn a hole in a piece of tissue-paper unless its rays are focused and concentrated on one spot.
- Take your hobbies seriously. Whatever they are, enter into them wholeheartedly. Become an expert. The best way to refresh your mind, to give it a new cutting edge, is to work hard at your hobbies.
- Learn to face and fight the hard experiences; Physically or mentally, or both.
- Alert can handle difficult work, arrive quickly at decisions and produce more. They do not put things off.
- Keep your senses sharp and your mind awake for the message they send you. Become aware of change and development. Sometimes small innovations evolve into important future development.
- Be observant. Notice what is going on both in your world and in the world of great events. Use all your five senses; sight, hearing, touch, smell, & taste, to acquire more knowledge of your surroundings.
- Learn a new skill. You might connect this with your main hobby or with your work. The mind and the body are one. To master a physical skill you need to develop a disciplined, lively mint to direct your hands and feet the way they should go.
- "Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." – Joshua J. Marine
- "Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict." – William Ellery Channing
- "In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down. – Brian Weir
- "We are like tea bags – we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water." – Sister Busche
- "There are two ways of meeting difficulties:you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them." – Phyllis Battome
- "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." – Mark Twain
- "When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us." – Alexander Graham Bell
- "When i hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard, 'I am always tempted to ask. 'Compared to what?" – Sydney J. Harris
- "When anger rises, think of the consequences." – Confucius
- "Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back th laughter and the lightness in your life." – oan Lunden
- "If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it." – Lucy Larcom
- "You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth." – Shira Tehrani
- "The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." – Lao Tzu
- "I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the torment." – Elie Wiesel
- "There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen." – Anonymous
- "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." – Margaret Mead
- "Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health and a bad memory." – Ingrid Bergman
- "Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right?" – I. Peter
- "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." – Albert Einstein
- "Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." – george S. Patton
- "We are all born for love;it is the principle of existence and its only end." – Benjamin Desraeli
- "There are activities that are worthy of your energy and attention and there are activities that are unworthy of them. Switch from being busy to achieving results." – Drucker
- "Set objectives. It is almost impossible to be successful or to get prompted if you don't set objectives." – Richard Templar
- "Talk up your wualities or skills or expertise – just don't actually tell a lie." – Richard Templar
- "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." – Aristotle
- "The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar call the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly." – Richard Bach
- "Twenty-five years ago i wish someone had told me that the enduring meaning in my life would be found in shaping my children's values, not in my professional success." – Rabbi Harold Kushner
- "The gretest danger for the most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that our aim is too low and we reach it." – Michaelangelo
- When asked, 'What can i do?' I've found the answer frequently can be found by rearranging the words into the answer, 'Dp what i can." – Ten Menten
- "Science may have found a cure for most evils;but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings." – Helen Keller
- "Guard within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness." – George Sand
- "All mothers and fathers. whatever their station in life, can make the most significant of contributions by imprinting the spirit of service on the souls of their children, so that the children grow up committed to making a difference." – Covey
- "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the places you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can." – John Wesley
- "Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon." – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- "Civilization is founded on integrity of mind and heart and action." – Pam Brown
- "This above all:to thine own self be true." – William Shakespeare
- "Life presents a never ending series of opportunities to perform acts of caring. Don't miss even one." – Stuart and Linda MacFarlane
- "Life is not made up of great sacrifices and duties, but of little things; in which smiles and kindness given habitually are what win and preserve the heart." – Sir Humphrey Davy
- "You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life-so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself." – Jane Seymour
- "A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world." – Mohammed


