If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.
Earl NightingaleSome people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person mentally without reading substantial books than you can be a vigorous person physically without eating solid food. Books should be chosen, not for their freedom from evil, but for their possession of good. Dr. Johnson said: "Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both."
Earl NightingaleFailures . . . believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances ... by things that happen to them ... by exterior forces.
Earl NightingaleOne hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.
Earl Nightingale