Carlos Castaneda Quotes

A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do thingsagainst himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions.

If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

In football, you only work for the things you can control. You cannot control the outside world: you can only control your preparation; you can only control your performances.

Sometimes you lose the head a bit, and lose your position, when you should be more relaxed and hold your position, which is better for the team.

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.

I used to be hyper, throw crazy and not think about what I wanted to do with each pitch. Now I have a better understanding of what it is to be a major league pitcher.

For the warrior, every moment is a challenge to be genuine, and each challenge is delightful. When you let go properly, you can relax and enjoy the challenge.

Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.

What has benefited me the most is learning I can't control what happens outside of my pitching.

You have to take a plan that might work and make it work

In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.

DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

FACE A SINGLE FOE as if you are facing ten thousand enemies; face ten thousand enemies as a single foe.

As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.

If I have something I want to do, I make a business of doing it.

It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.

You don't need more time in your day. You need to decide.

To go faster you must slow down.

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.

Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.

Learn to become still, and take your attention away from what you don't want

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.