PATIENCE
“Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.” (Brian Adams, singer)
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slow down and REFLECT
on the MEANING and the MESSAGE of today’s quotation
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“Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.” (Brian Adams, singer)
In Your Own Words…
In your own words, what is the central message of the above quote by the American singer Bryan Adams?
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” (Albert Einstein)
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Quotation AI Assistant
Interested in seeing what artificial intelligence (ai) has to say about the meaning of today’s quotation? Compare it to your own interpretation. You may be fascinated, or even possibly humbled.
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Getting Personal
Have you ever achieved a personal goal, and attributed your success to your having been patient? What was the goal, and why do you believe that having had patience was crucial to your having achieved it.?
Have you ever NOT achieved a personal goal, and attributed your lack of success to your having lacked patience? What was the goal, and in what way(s) did you lack patience?
“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.” (John Stuart Mill)
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INSIGHTS for SUCCESS
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
“Whether it’s marriage or business, patience is the first rule of success.” (William Feather)
“No road is too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; and no honors are too distant for the man who prepares himself for them with patience.” (Jean de La Bruyere)
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from Duane Mendes @unsplash.com
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