Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others. - David J. Schwartz
Do this: Start marching toward your ultimate goal by making the next task you perform, regardless of how unimportant it may seem, a step in the right direction. Commit this question to memory and use it to evaluate everything you do: Will this help take me where I want to go? If the answer is no, back off; if yes, press ahead. - David J. Schwartz
Einstein taught us a big lesson. He felt it was more important to use your mind to think than to use it as a warehouse for facts. - David J. Schwartz
Get the big view of your job. Think, really think your present job is important. That next promotion depends mostly on how you think toward your present job. - David J. Schwartz
Here is a psychological principle that is worth reading over twenty-five times. Read it until it absolutely saturates you: To think confidently, act confidently. - David J. Schwartz
How much we can do depends on how much we think we can do. When you really believe you can do more, your mind thinks creatively and shows you the way. - David J. Schwartz
How you think determines how you act. How you act in turn determines how others react to you. - David J. Schwartz
Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius calibre. - David J. Schwartz
Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action. - David J. Schwartz
Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting, and in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously and continuously a plan for self-development and growth. - David J. Schwartz
Reminding yourself, you never gain anything from an argument but you always lose something. - David J. Schwartz
The only real basis other people have for judging your abilities is your actions. And your actions are controlled by your thoughts. - David J. Schwartz