You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.
It's not the situation, but whether we react, or respond, to the situation that's important.
I took up an offer for me to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. It worked. I lost 30 days!
Timid salesmen have skinny kids.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Circumstances don't create character. They reveal character.