Passion - and humor will permit all of us to do some marvelous things.
If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.
You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have
Circumstances don't create character. They reveal character.
When you make a mistake, be excited! Analyze what happened, and learn from it.
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.