The ability to convert ideas ...

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.