Unlimited Power

• The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
• You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else’s plan for you.
• Power is the ability to change your life, to shape your perceptions, to make things work for you and not against you.
• One has now come to see a new class structure divided by those who have information and those who must function out of ignorance.
• Knowledge is only potential power until it comes into the hands of someone who knows how to get himself to take effective action.
• What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication.
• Every communication we make is an action, a cause set in motion.
• How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life- it is your interpretation of what is happening.
• The quality of our lives is determined not by what happens to us, but rather by what we do about what happens.
• You are the one who decides how to feel and act based upon the ways you choose to perceive your life.
• Most of us have turned this process of interpretation on automatic, but we can take that power back and immediately change our experience of the world.
• You don’t catch emotions, you create them.
• For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
• Define precisely what you want. Develop the sensory acuity to recognize the kinds of responses and results you’re getting from your actions. You must know what you’re getting from your actions, whether it be in a conversation or from your daily habits in life. Learn from every human experience.
• Those who succeed are committed to changing and being flexible until they do create the life that they desire.
• Take massive, determined action.
• Passion: A reason, a consuming, energizing, almost obsessive purpose that drives them to do, to grow, and to be more.
• It’s passion that causes people to stay up late and get up early.
• What we believe to be true, what we believe is possible, becomes what’s true, and becomes what’s possible.
• Passion and belief help to provide the fuel, the propulsion toward excellence.
• A strategy is recognition that the best talents and ambitions also need to find the right avenue.
• The way we communicate with others and the way we communicate with ourselves ultimately determine the quality of our lives.
• Only a small percentage of people really live the life of their dreams because it takes effort and consistent action.
• It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
• All you have to do is take a proven system and duplicate it- and maybe even better, improve upon it.
• The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
• Changing states of being involve changing internal representation and physiology.
• Nothing is inherently bad or good. Value is how we represent it to ourselves.
• When we go into a state, our brain then accesses possible behavioral choices. The number of choices is determined by our models of the world.
• Life is like a river. It’s moving, and you can be at the mercy of the river if you don’t take deliberate, conscious action to steer yourself in a direction you have predetermined.
• If we don’t consciously direct our own minds and states, our environment may produce undesirable haphazard states.
• The ancestor of every action is a thought.
• One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
• Beliefs are the compass and maps that guide us toward our goals and give us the surety to know we’ll get there.
• It’s clear that even at the level of physiology that beliefs (congruent internal representations) control reality.
• Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.
• If people maintain the belief systems that empower them, they’ll keep coming back with enough action and enough resourcefulness to succeed eventually.
• The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.
• The world we live in is the world we choose to live in, whether consciously or unconsciously. If we choose bliss, that’s what we get. If we choose misery, we get that too.
• Our beliefs are specific, consistent organizational approaches to perception. They’re the fundamental choices we make about how to perceive our lives and thus how to live them.
• The path to success consists of knowing your outcome, taking action, knowing what results you’re getting, and having the flexibility to change until you’re successful.
• You have to find the beliefs that support your outcome- the beliefs that get you where you want to go.
• No matter how much we believe in a concept, we should be open to other possibilities and continuous learning.
• Successful people have the uncanny ability to focus on what is possible in a situation, what positive results could come from it. No matter how much negative feedback they get from their environment, they think in terms of possibilities.
• There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
• There’s no such thing as failure, only results. You always produce a result. If it’s not the one you desire, you can just change your actions and you’ll produce new results.
• We have to constantly remain alert, readjust our behavior, and recalibrate our actions to make sure we’re going where we want to go.
• W.I.T.  – Whatever It Takes. Successful people are willing to do whatever it takes to succeed. That, as much as anything else, is what separates them from the pack.
• Information is now the commodity of kings.
• Don’t find fault, find a remedy.
• Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.
• There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
• After all, frustration, depression, and ecstasy aren’t things. They are processes created by specific mental images, sounds, and physical actions that you consciously or unconsciously control.
• If I continue to represent things to myself this way, what will likely be the final result in my life?
• You don’t want to find out later that something you could simply and easily have changed led you down a path to a place you don’t want to be.
• Let all things be done decently and in order.
• So you need to find the combination that opens your vault and those that open other people’s vaults as well.
• Other than physical necessities of life, like food and water, almost everything else you might want is a state (of being). All you have to know is the right strategy for getting yourself there.
• People who learn rapidly can master even the most complex tasks because they chunk information into small steps and then reassemble them into the original whole.
• If you ask for almost anything in the world in the right way, with enough conviction and enough commitment, you’ll get it.
• There’s no powerful action without powerful physiology.
• There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.
• If you’re committed to success, you’ll create it.
• People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals- that is, goals that do not inspire them.
• When the mind has a defined target, it can focus and direct and refocus and redirect until it reaches its intended goal. If it doesn’t have a defined target, its energy is squandered.
• You can’t hit a target if you don’t know what it is.
• Before something happens in the external world, it must first happen in the internal world.
• We must first experience being more in our minds, and our lives will then follow suit.
• Whatever limitations you have are limitations you’ve created. Where do they exist? Only in your mind.
• If you have enough reasons, you can do anything. Reasons are the difference between being interested versus being committed to accomplishing something.
• If you find a big enough “why”, you will figure out the how.
• We hear a lot about success, but we don’t hear as much about the components of success- the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that go into producing it.
• One way to overcome the limitations you’ve created is to know exactly what they are. Dissect your personality to see what’s holding you back from achieving what you want.
• You need a blueprint, a plan. You need a sequence and a structure so your actions complement and reinforce one another.
• Goals are like magnets. They’ll attract the things that make them come true.
• The brain responds most to repetition and deep feelings.
• The road to success is always under construction.
• There are only two pains in life, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret, and that discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
• Where there is no vision, people perish.
• Success has a lot to do with how precisely our words can convey what we want- how closely our map can approximate the territory.
• They key to effective communication is to break through that fog, to become a fluff-buster.
• The road to agreement is paved with specific information, not generalizations.
• Choose “how” questions over “why” questions. “Why” questions can get you reasons and explanations and justifications and excuses but rarely come with useful information.
• The essence of successful communications is the ability to develop rapport and enter someone else’s world to make him feel that you understand him. It’s the ability to go fully from your map of the world to his map of the world.
• If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
• While the words are working on a person’s conscious mind, the physiology is working on the unconscious.
• Response, not content, is the meaning of communication.
• All human behavior revolves around the urge to gain pleasure or avoid pain.
• What is the relationship between what you are doing this month and what you did last month?
• The first step toward change is recognition. The awareness of exactly what we are currently doing provides the opportunity for new choices and thus for change.
• Remember, you are not your behaviors. If you tend to run any kind of pattern that works against you, all you have to do is change it.
• They key to life is opening up as many avenues as possible, trying as many doors, using as many different approaches as it takes to solve a problem. If you run on one program, work from one strategy, you’ll be about as effective as a car that runs in one gear.
• A good communicator, instead of opposing someone’s views, is flexible and resourceful enough to sense the creation of resistance, find points of agreement, align himself with them, and then redirect communication in a way he wants to go.
• The word “but” has negated everything said before it.
• There are no resistant people, only inflexible communicators.
• Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
• You can persuade better through agreement than through conquest.
• If you’re in a rut, stop what you’re doing, and try something new. We’re not robots wired into barely remembered personal traumas.
• There are ways to see our biggest problems as our greatest opportunities- if only we can step out of our trained patterns of perception.
• How we feel about something and what we do in this world are dependent upon our perception of it.
• We do not see the world as it is because how things are can be interpreted from many points of view.
• Content reframing involves taking the exact same situation and changing what it means.
• All persuasion is an altering of perception.
• Procrastination may seem useless, yet wouldn’t it be nice to put off being angry or sad to another day- and then never get to it?
• You adopted this behavior to create some gain for yourself.
• The whole world isn’t against you… There are billions of people who don’t care one way or another.
• If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.
• If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
• The system with the most flexibility, with the most choices, will be the most effective.
• The best salesmen are those who are rejected the most. How many no’s can you take?
• Limited thoughts create limited lives.
• Success is buried on the other side of rejection.
• If you can handle rejection, you’ll learn to get everything you want.
• All of our actions in life are guided by our philosophies, our guiding internal representations about how to act.
• Comfort can be one of the most disastrous emotions a boy could have. What happens when a person gets too comfortable? He stops growing, stops working, stops creating added value.
• He who’s not busy being born is busy dying.
• You’re either climbing or your sliding.
• I use to think I was doing well because I was doing well compared with people I knew. That’s one of the biggest mistakes you can make.
• Learn to judge yourself by your goals instead of by what your peers seem to be doing.
• Little things affect little minds. Don’t major in minor things.
• Always give more than you expect to receive.
• Power today is the ability to communicate and the ability to persuade.
• You can have an idea or a product that can change the world, but without the power to persuade, you have nothing.
• Someone once described advertising as “the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.’
• By starting to make changes, by growing in bits and pieces, you can slowly but steadily change your life.
• Everything in life is cumulative.
• The best way to predict the future is to get a clear idea of what’s happening now.
• May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm on your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields, and, until we meet again… may God hold you softly in the palm of His hand. Good-bye and God bless.

Source: Unlimited Power by Anthony Robbins