I do not believe for a second that you can be a bad person—a dishonest or cruel person—and have true success. The kind of so-called success achieved this way cannot give you peace and contentment. This kind of success is temporal at best. A business slogan I really like is, “Do the right things and do them right.” I firmly believe that honesty and integrity are the foundation for any type of success—honesty with others and, more important, honesty with oneself.

On why I, Anne, run half marathons:
“Small victories have no shelf life. They are little waves that lap up against some part of [the] brain and are gone….. There’s no mysticism about this. Victory is not everything, nor is it the only thing. It’s not slippery or elusive. Victory is ever present, in our minds day in and day out, no matter what the job at hand. We grab it, or we don’t. And man of us, most of the time, simply refuse to reach for it….
The smell of victory is not, as Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore suggested, napalm in the morning. You know what victory smells like? The rubber floor of a gym. It smells like the cover of a 16-pound med ball in dirty hands as a warm breeze blows through eucalyptus branches behind a San Diego strip mall. And victory sounds like that ball being hurled against a cinder-block wall, again, again, and again. Victory looks like fried colors on the edges of your vision on the last rep. Victory tastes like your own filings, like acid in your saliva with a touch of underlying bile held down by sheer will.
This isn’t a Nike commercial…. Physical conditioning is the foundation of any an all successes, no matter where you are or what you do…. Victories, large and small, will not come in a constant stream if your body is unprepared, because by default, the mind is useless if the body is not ready….If you want to know what victory is, taste it a bit more often, you must understand it as [champions] understand it.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

Belief [is] unwittingly and nonverbally communicated. More importantly, these nonverbal messages [are] then digested…and transformed into reality.
This phenomenon is called the Pygmalion Effect: when our belief in another person’s potential brings that potential to life. Whether we are trying to uncover the talent in a class of second graders or in workers sitting around at the morning meeting, the Pygmalion Effect can happen anywhere. The expectations we have about our children, co-workers, and spouses—whether or not they are ever voiced—can make that expectation a reality.