Hope and optimism aren't just attitudes, they are life strategies.
In any case, I am not a great one to make plans for the future.
I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.
I feel very ill-equipped to be giving anyone advice about their life.
In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.
I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.
It's really important to have life strategies and part of that is sort of knowing where you want to go so you can have a map that helps you to get there. And the traditional way tells us oh we get into school and someone else advises us, helps us, but that often does not work for African Americans female and male. Because what works for the dominant culture often does not work for us.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my life.
If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are. The closer your mind is to reality, the better your strategies, your responses in life.
What activities, behaviors, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them.
I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big.
Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
Basically i've done a few podcasts one is 'Prepare for the Unexpected' which is a guide to my life and how I deal with things and I've also done a 'Guide to Surving the Summer Festivals' too.
What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.
All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.
