The time to prepare isn't after you have been given the opportunity. It's long before that opportunity arises. Once the opportunity arrives, it's too late to prepare.

Don't think that you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.

The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.

The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning.

I think anyone's success depends on working hard, Industriousness and Enthusiasm, enjoying what you are doing. You can't work your best if you're not enjoying what you are doing. No way you can force yourself to.

Never be disagreeable just because you disagree.