You create your reality according to your beliefs and expectations, therefore you should examine these carefully. If you do not like some aspect of your world, then examine your own expectations.

There is no other way to change your physical reality but by changing your thoughts.

You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform.

The miracle of your being cannot escape itself. Your thoughts blossom into events. Your beliefs grow as surely in time and space as flowers do.

Expectations are the engines of our perceptions.

And yet the real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side is rewarded by a marketplace in search of the best in the world. A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.

We happily give up our freedom and our income in exchange for having someone else take responsibility for telling us what to do next.