All that matters is the pressure you put on yourself. External pressures cause people to choke. While you can't control what happens to you, you can control how you react.

The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

It's always about focusing not on the mistakes but on the lessons learned from them.

Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are, and your reputetion is who people think you re.

No one is an overachiever. How can you rise above your level of competency? Everyone is an underachiever to different degrees. The harder you work, the more luck you will have.

It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.

Without organization and leadership toward a realistic goal, there is no chance of realizing more than a small percentage of your potential.