Convinced Quote by Samuel Johnson

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

— Hermann Broch

The man who succeeds must always in mind or imagination live, move, think, and act as if he had gained that success, or he…

— Prentice Mulford

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

— Marcel Proust

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You…

— Andy Warhol

The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be…

— Claude M. Bristol

Once all come to know that by the concentration of the mind on one point, on one principle, on one desire, a power is…

— Harvey Spencer Lewis

One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by…

— Bruce Lee

Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.

— Carlos Castaneda

There do exist enquiring minds, which long for the truth of the heart, seek it, strive to solve the problems set by life, try…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and…

— Stephen Toulmin