Creating Your Ultimate Destiny
1: Your Ultimate Destiny
"If you could do anything you wanted with your life, what would it be?"
"The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future." - Joseph Conrad
Destiny: "The predetermined, usually inevitable or irresistible course of events." - Dictionary
"Very largely [the happiness I've achieved] is due to a diminishing preoccupation with myself." - Bertrand Russell in his book The Conquest of Happiness
"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp." -John Berry, author
2: Living Your Destiny
"Whatever your mind most naturally turns to, that's the key to an enjoyable and productive future. Examine it, write it down, explore it from every possible angle. There's opportunity there - worlds of it!" - Earl Nightingale
3: Shaping Your Destiny
Que sera, sera - Spanish for "What will be, will be."
4: Your Identity
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." - Seneca, Roman statesman and philosopher, two thousand years ago
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
5: Knowledge
"The ancients who desired to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the empire first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order well their own states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their own persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they extended their knowledge to the utmost, and this extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things." - Confucius, Chinese philosopher of about 500 B.C.
"Knowledge is power."
"The mind is the man, and knowledge mind; a man is but what he knoweth."
- Francis Bacon, English philosopher
"All naturally desire knowledge." - Aristotle in his treatise Metaphysics
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young." - Henry Ford
"When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing." - Pascal
"Reading well, which means reading actively, is...not only a good in itself, nor is it merely a means to advancement in our work or career. It also serves to keep our minds alive and growing."
- from the last chapter "Reading and the Growth of the Mind" in How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren
"Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." - Thomas Huxley, British biologist and writer in 1860
6: Questions
"The imagination is one of the highest prerogatives of man." - Charles Darwin
"When writers are doing their most intense, creative work, they look like they're doing nothing."
"You can train yourself to get inspired. You can get inspired as a habit."
- Richard Cohen in Writer's Mind
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody else sees and thinking what nobody else has thought." - one noted scientist
"We owe almost all of our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed." - someone else
7: Your Life's Purpose
"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." - Mary Shelley
"The secret to success is constancy of purpose." - Benjamin Disraeli
8: Emotions
"There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion." - Carl Jung, pioneering psycholgist
9: Wealth
"The first wealth is health." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love." - Henry Miller, playwright
"If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them." - Christopher Morley, writer
10: Adversity
"Adversity is the first path to truth." - Lord Byron, English poet
11: Influence
"Misery loves company." - common truism
12: Certainty
"Nothing is certain except the past." - Seneca, Roman philosopher
"As within, so without." - popular saying
"Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream."
- well-know children's song
Reference: Creating Your Ultimate Destiny, Robert Stuberg, Nightingale-Conant audiotapes, © 1998
"If you could do anything you wanted with your life, what would it be?"
"The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future." - Joseph Conrad
Destiny: "The predetermined, usually inevitable or irresistible course of events." - Dictionary
"Very largely [the happiness I've achieved] is due to a diminishing preoccupation with myself." - Bertrand Russell in his book The Conquest of Happiness
"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp." -John Berry, author
2: Living Your Destiny
"Whatever your mind most naturally turns to, that's the key to an enjoyable and productive future. Examine it, write it down, explore it from every possible angle. There's opportunity there - worlds of it!" - Earl Nightingale
3: Shaping Your Destiny
Que sera, sera - Spanish for "What will be, will be."
4: Your Identity
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." - Seneca, Roman statesman and philosopher, two thousand years ago
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
5: Knowledge
"The ancients who desired to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the empire first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order well their own states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their own persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they extended their knowledge to the utmost, and this extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things." - Confucius, Chinese philosopher of about 500 B.C.
"Knowledge is power."
"The mind is the man, and knowledge mind; a man is but what he knoweth."
- Francis Bacon, English philosopher
"All naturally desire knowledge." - Aristotle in his treatise Metaphysics
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young." - Henry Ford
"When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing." - Pascal
"Reading well, which means reading actively, is...not only a good in itself, nor is it merely a means to advancement in our work or career. It also serves to keep our minds alive and growing."
- from the last chapter "Reading and the Growth of the Mind" in How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren
"Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." - Thomas Huxley, British biologist and writer in 1860
6: Questions
"The imagination is one of the highest prerogatives of man." - Charles Darwin
"When writers are doing their most intense, creative work, they look like they're doing nothing."
"You can train yourself to get inspired. You can get inspired as a habit."
- Richard Cohen in Writer's Mind
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody else sees and thinking what nobody else has thought." - one noted scientist
"We owe almost all of our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed." - someone else
7: Your Life's Purpose
"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." - Mary Shelley
"The secret to success is constancy of purpose." - Benjamin Disraeli
8: Emotions
"There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion." - Carl Jung, pioneering psycholgist
9: Wealth
"The first wealth is health." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love." - Henry Miller, playwright
"If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them." - Christopher Morley, writer
10: Adversity
"Adversity is the first path to truth." - Lord Byron, English poet
11: Influence
"Misery loves company." - common truism
12: Certainty
"Nothing is certain except the past." - Seneca, Roman philosopher
"As within, so without." - popular saying
"Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream."
- well-know children's song
Reference: Creating Your Ultimate Destiny, Robert Stuberg, Nightingale-Conant audiotapes, © 1998
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