Steve Pavlina Quotes

[munish]

I do my best to remove my ego from any attachment to the results. Ideas are ideas — they are not me. Even if I’m relating personal stories, those stories are still not equal to the real me.My ideas and skills are merely possessions or creations, but they don’t define the real me. -Steve Pavlina.

[munish]

I see the present moment as something contained within my being instead of the more common perception of being a person contained within the reality of the present moment.

[munish]

Arrogance and timidity both produce garbage input, making it impossible for you to produce intelligent output.

[munish]

The goal must be measurable. I usually use time as the unit of measurement .

[norbert]

"Life really began flowing for me when I finally let go of that ego junk, pride, and feelings of doubt and said to myself, "I'm just going to focus on making the best contribution I can. If I go broke doing that, I go broke. My fears and worries are just not that important compared to the difference I could make if I really gave this life my very best. If I'm here to make a contribution, then the universe had better back me up."
--Steve Pavlina

[Chinese Dragon]

One of my favorites,

"The only way to lose the game of life is not to play. When you actively play the game, you gain skill and experience (and hopefully gold as well). Keep playing, and you’ll eventually build yourself a level 10, level 20, level 30 character. Just make sure that when you hit level 30, you aren’t still fighting level 10 monsters."
- Steve Pavlina

[munish]

All the pain we create is our own — by allowing ourselves to adopt a disempowering, fear-based context.

[munish]

Gratitude says, “How wonderful it is to exist!”

[Natsu]

Originally Posted by theknightwhosaysni-NI

"What you believe is up to you. But let it be up to you intentionally. Choose your beliefs consciously.

If you don't choose your beliefs consciously, then someone else will do it for you." Steve Pavlina. (In the article Spirituality Vs Intelligence).

This one is an amazing one, too. It's funny and somewhat uncanny that sometimes you have been doing certain stuff all your life (such as choosing your beliefs), but never have thought about it in those terms. And still, despite the fact that you've done it before, reading it put into words is empowering... I wouldn't have written it, but after reading it, it was such a huge truth it was obvious. One of the best.

Originally Posted by Chinese Dragon

"The only way to lose the game of life is not to play. When you actively play the game, you gain skill and experience (and hopefully gold as well). Keep playing, and you’ll eventually build yourself a level 10, level 20, level 30 character. Just make sure that when you hit level 30, you aren’t still fighting level 10 monsters."

Great one, too

[munish]

You are God.

[munish]

Steve is contained within me, but he’s not the real me.

[munish]

I’m the kind of person who has an extremely high risk tolerance and could feel perfectly secure living on a park bench.

[munish]

I would say Bill is predominantly love-polarized and has been so since the early days of Microsoft.

[munish]

“Worthy” is of course in the eye of the beholder.

[zeloc]

Originally Posted by daisylover26

"When in doubt, act boldly, as if it were impossible to fail."
-Steve Pavlina

Don't remember which article this was from, but I loved it as soon as I read it. I even use it as my signature line in my email sometimes

This is actually a quotation of Dorothea Brande, in her book "Wake Up and Live." An unrelated point, but I had a college professor once say that quote is a verb, quotation is the noun, although you will even see PhDs in English making this mistake.

[zeloc]

Originally Posted by Natsu

My all-time favourite:

"You can give up control, but you can't give up responsibility. Responsibility will still be yours".

I don't remember the exact sentence, but this is what it meant. And it changed my way of looking at the world.

Is this not from Brian Tracy?

[Savage]

Originally Posted by zeloc

Is this not from Brian Tracy?

That responsibility quote is largely a platitude. It would be a mistake to attribute it to me. I've heard similar ideas from many speakers, including Brian Tracy. In a few of my articles I took the idea and expanded on it with more detail than I've seen elsewhere, but I didn't invent the original idea.

[JiriNovotny]

Originally Posted by zeloc

Is this not from Brian Tracy?

One can ready about it in the "Maximum Achievment" book which is on the recommended books list.

[Rose of Cairo]

I like this one very much :

"The word safe is both an adjective and a noun. As an adjective it means “being free from danger.” As a noun it’s “an enclosed storage container with a lock on it.” If you’re living the adjective, you’re living the noun too." - Steve Pavlina

Thanks Steve!

[Zaulche]

My favorite quote from Steve so far would probably be:

"You haven’t really lived until you’ve done calculus in crayon."

While perhaps not the most life changing thought from Steve compared to some of his other works I have read, having gone through calculus courses myself it has touched a personal cord and inspired me to give it a try. Sometimes colored pencils are just more fun than blue or black ink, and it doesn't make the journey or outcome any less meaningful.

[Shamou]

My favorite quote from Steve is the following… (seen in post #24 here...)

“Shamou's account has been re-enabled.”
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[munish]

There’s little to be gained by setting goals you don’t believe you can accomplish.

[munish]

If you are waiting for external security, you’re waiting for death.

[munish]

I took on a game designer who was largely motivated by the desire for money, status, personal gain, recognition, high sales, and the coolness factor of creating a hit game......
In fact, we attracted problem after problem, including $150K of debt and lots of broken promises. Working together sometimes felt like moving through sludge.
We couldn't succeed together because our energies were incompatible,

[munish]

It amuses me that one of my extended family members still wanted me to go out and get a job last year, since she felt it would make me more money in the short term.
Short-term thinking and risk aversion dominate this planet. A person like me who embraces intelligent risk and thinks decades ahead doesn’t fit in very well here.

[Andrew Brunelle]

"Holding the belief that the Law of Attraction doesn't work is actuallly using the Law of Attraction against itself." I think it was from the podcast, "The True Nature of Reality." It really struck a chord with me. "It is like a god who uses his powers to make himself powerless."

[Michael Chui]

Originally Posted by Zaulche

"You haven’t really lived until you’ve done calculus in crayon."

I've done electrodynamics in 4 different colors on a whiteboard and two glass windows that we weren't supposed to draw on. Does that count?

I should read this forum more often. You guys are amusing.

[munish]

That last quote has nothing to do with the article. I just happen to think it’s funny. -steve pavlina.

(“Familiarity breeds contempt — and children.” - Mark Twain).

[Andreas]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there an earlier version of Norbert's quote? I distinctly remember reading something more like:

Life really began flowing for me when I finally let go of that ego junk, pride, and feelings of doubt and said to myself, "I'm just going to focus on making the best contribution I can. If I go broke doing that, I go broke. My fears and worries are just not that important compared to the difference I could make if I really gave this life my very best. If I'm here to make a contribution, then the universe had damn well better back me up."

(the current version of course being from How can I go on?)

I swear I read that version somewhere, and I prefer it.

[munish]

If you enjoy your volunteering and charitable activities more than your career, it means your career is in serious need of an upgrade.