Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'
Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.
