#yourself

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls. ↗

— Howard Thurman

#days #else #ends #ever #every

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#develop #fade #formulate #hold #imagination

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#condition #conducive #expectations #goal #happy

Change yourself and your work will seem different. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#different #seem #will #work #your

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#entirely #live #others #some #thinking

You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#becomes #certainly #chef #choice #cook

You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever. ↗

— Piper Perabo

#far #forever #going #gut #keep

I think you can find yourself on one of these shows for a long period of time and think that all you'll ever be able to do is that character. Certainly people think of you that way. ↗

— William Petersen

#certainly #character #ever #find #i

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act. ↗

— Liz Phair

#am #away #be yourself #because #define

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#accomplish #anything #beliefs #certain #certainty