The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life.

Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.

You can NEVER rise higher than your expectations of yourself. Expect the BEST!

You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.

Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete (the) other tasks.

Ideas are a dime a dozen, but people who put them into effect are extremely rare. Be the minority and make it happen!

Your solution for a customer has to be either amazingly valuable to someone who will pay an enormous amount of money for it or has to be valuable to an enormous number of people who pay a small amount. And also the person you're talking to-especially if you want to raise capital or raise support-has to personally say, "I want that. I like that. That sounds really great. I want that for myself."