Quotes: Charles Duhigg

"Small wins are exactly what they sound like, and are part of how keystone habits create widespread changes. A huge body of research has shown that small wins have enormous power, an influence disproportionate to the accomplishments of the victories themselves. "Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage, one Cornell professor [Karl E. Weick] wrote in 1984. "Once a small win has been accomplished, forces are set in motion that favour another small win." Small wins fuel transformative changes by leveraging tiny advantages into patterns that convince people that bigger achievements are within reach." 

–– Charles Duhigg (b. 1974), American journalist and non-fiction author

Source: Charles Duhigg. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2012; p. 112.

via Commonplace Book 2013-2014, 2013, p. 18. 

Quotes: Marcus Aurelius

"You have power over your mind –– not outside events." 

–– Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD), Roman Emperor and Stoic Philosopher 

Quotes: Robert Greene

"Always stick to what makes you weird, odd, strange, different. That's your source of power." 

–– Robert Greene (b. 1959), American writer 

Source: Daily Philosopher, Instagram, August 17, 2023. 

via: Sketchbook 33, 2023, p. 91.

Black History quotes: Ralph Ellison

"Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it." 

–– Ralph Ellison (1913-1994), American novelist, literary critic, and scholar 

Quotes 117: Isak Dinesen

"Women when they are old enough to have done with the business of being women, and can let loose their strength, may be the most powerful creatures in the world." 

–– Isak Dinesen, pen name of Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (1885-1962), Danish writer

via Book of Commonplace 2005-2006, p. 106