Erick Rainey:
CLASS OF 1979
Goddard CollegeClass of 1979
Plainfield, VT
Erick's Story
Erick is from New Orleans, Louisiana. Erick later attended Exeter College of Art and Design, Farnham college of art and design, Goddard College. Erick works(ed) at Rainworks Training And Development.
Music Erick likes includes Bernard Haitink, Erato, MC YOGI. Books Erick likes include 48 Laws of Power.
One of Erick's favorite quotes is:""Discipline is the bridge between
goals and accomplishment." — Jim Rohn: was an American entrepreneur,
author and motivational speaker
"Take the first step in faith.
You don't have to see the whole staircase,
just take the first step."— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: was an American clergyman and
civil rights lead
"The greatest discovery you'll ever make,
is the potential of your own mind." — José Silva: was a American parapsychologist and author
"No matter how carefully you plan your goals
they will never be more than pipe dreams
unless you pursue them with gusto."— W. Clement Stone: was a businessman, philanthropist
and New Thought self-help book author
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." — Aristotle: was a Greek philosopher
"Don't wait. The time will never be just right." — Napoleon Hill: was an author and pioneer of the
personal development genre
"When we forget to use visualization and imagination, it is like not using our minds." — Jose Silva: was a American parapsychologist and author
"Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving." — Maxwell Maltz: was a motivational author and creator
of the Psycho-Cybernetics
"If you make friends with yourself
you will never be alone." — Maxwell Maltz: was a motivational author and creator
of the Psycho-Cybernetics
"There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle." — Deepak Chopra: is an authority in the field of mind-body healing
"Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today." — Maxwell Maltz: was a motivational author and creator
of the Psycho-Cybernetics
"Everything depends upon execution;
having just a vision is no solution." — Stephen Sondheim: Award-winning American composer & lyricist
"The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years." — Deepak Chopra: is an authority in the field of mind-body healing
"Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy." — Maxwell Maltz: was a motivational author and creator
of the Psycho-Cybernetics
"You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology." — Deepak Chopra: is an authority in the field of mind-body healing
"When you are in the zone, your intuition comes to the forefront, ... Your intuition will guide you. It is your best friend. It has information your mind does not have. When you are a zone performer — no matter what it is you do — you are operating on intuition and you have an unfair advantage
over the competition." — Jim Fannin: Nightingale-Conant author
"Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build." — Robert Collier: was a self help and New Thought author
"What we think, we become." — Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta: the founder of Buddhism
"It doesn't matter where you are coming from.
All that matters is where you are going." — Brian Tracy: is a self-help author and motivational speaker"I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better.
Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich." — Jim Carrey: is a Canadian-American actor
"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude." — Zig Ziglar: Motivational author and speaker
"We all have gifts: powers to varying degrees - and everyone has at least one gift - that is your particular piece of power. Acknowledging that you do have power is a major energy of change." — Lee Pulos: is a psychologist, entrepreneur and author
"If you don't see yourself as a winner,
then you cannot perform as a winner." — Zig Ziglar: Motivational author and speaker
"You do not have a future. You only have now." — Asara Lovejoy: is a human potential and consciousness author
"Simple kindness to one's self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force of all."— Dr. David Hawkins: is a psychiatrist, physician, researcher, and pioneer in the fields of consciousness research and spirituality
"Lack of trust in yourself, in your healing ability, can be eliminated when you learn to tune into your body and to tell the truth about your thoughts that are either supporting your health or denying it." — Asara Lovejoy: is a human potential and consciousness author
‘A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.’ ~Lao Tzu
"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed." — Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta: the founder of Buddhism
"Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are. If you're friendly then everybody else seems to be friendly too." — Dr. David Hawkins: is a psychiatrist, physician, researcher, and pioneer in the fields of consciousness research and spirituality
"Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others." — Dr. David Hawkins: is a psychiatrist, physician, researcher, and pioneer in the fields of consciousness research and spirituality
"You've got to visualize where you're
headed and be very clear about it. Take a polaroid picture of where you're going to be in a few years." — Sara Blakely: is an entrepreneur and founder of Spanx
"The only way to lead people is to show them a vision of where you're headed and a path to get there together. These days people don't commit to companies or colleges, they commit to other people. That's the name of the game." — Dr. Howard Tullman: is an American entrepreneur and author
"You are much grander than you think you are." — Asara Lovejoy: is a human potential and consciousness author
"It's really important that you feel good. Because this feeling good is what goes out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you. So the more you can feel good, the more you will attract the things that help you feel good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher."
— Dr. Joe Vitale: Motivational author and speaker
"Your greatest asset is your earning ability.
Your greatest resource is your time." — Brian Tracy: is a self-help author and motivational speaker
"No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education." — Plato: was a Classical Greek philosopher
"Invest three percent of your income in yourself
(self-development) in order to guarantee your future." — Brian Tracy: is a self-help author and motivational speaker
“To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something.” - Lao Tzu
"All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose." — Brian Tracy: is a self-help author and motivational speaker
"If you don't see yourself as a winner, then
you cannot perform as a winner."— Zig Ziglar: Motivational author and speaker
"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."— Jim Rohn: was an American entrepreneur, author
and motivational speaker
"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are
with the gift of your attention."— Jim Rohn: was an American entrepreneur, author
and motivational speaker
"Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need
to open the door is just one more good idea." — Jim Rohn: was an American entrepreneur, author
and motivational speaker
"Effort only fully releases its reward
after a person refuses to quit."— Napoleon Hill: was an author and pioneer of the personal
development genre
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." — Jim Rohn: was an American entrepreneur, author
and motivational speaker
"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I'm Possible!" Audrey Hepburn
"A goal is a dream with a deadline."
— Napoleon Hill: was an author and pioneer of the personal
development genre
"Success is not for the timid. It is for those who seek guidance, make decisions, and take decisive action."— Jose Silva: was a American parapsychologist and author
"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those
that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."
— Wayne Dyer: is an American self-help advocate, author, and lecturer
"There is no such thing as a problem without a solution,
only problems for which we do not yet have enough information to know what the solution is. When you have enough information, it is easy to solve a problem." — Jose Silva: was a American parapsychologist and author
"Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs
in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully,
load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk." — Richard Koch: is a former management consultant,
entrepreneur, and writer
“If it is important to you, you will find a way If not, you’ll find an excuse” Anon
"Abundance is not something we acquire.
It is something we tune into."— Wayne Dyer: ...Expand for more
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"Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined."— Richard Koch: is a former management consultant,
entrepreneur, and writer
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."— Dale Carnegie: was an American writer and lecturer
"There are two primary choices in life:
to accept conditions as they exist, or
accept the responsibility for changing them." — Denis Waitley: is an American motivational speaker and writer
"In the journey of life, we assume the commas in life to be full-stops. But they are not full-stops. The full-stop is only at the end of our lives." Bollywood movie
"Be sure you put your feet
in the right place, then stand firm."— Abraham Lincoln: was the 16th President of the United States
"Always do right. This will
gratify some people and astonish the rest." — Mark Twain: was an American author and humorist
"Fear of rejection is a sign of neediness - specifically, the need to be liked." — Jim Camp: Renowned negotiations trainer and coach
"Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer. "~ Leo Buscaglia
“How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.” [Stephen R. Covey]
"To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping." — Chinese Proverb
"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them." — Ralph Nichols
‘Everything is practice.’ ~Pele
"In negotiation, "yes" is the worst word.
It just betrays fear of failure and a fear of losing
this deal, and it primes you to please the other side,
to rush ahead, to compromise early and often,
to come to a deal, any deal." — Jim Camp: Renowned negotiations trainer and coach
"Thoughts are sending out that magnetic signal that is drawing the parallel back to you." — Dr. Joe Vitale: Motivational author and speaker
"Unnecessary fear of a bad decision is a major stumbling block to good decisions." — Jim Camp: Renowned negotiations trainer and coach
"If you turn it over to the universe you will be surprised and dazzled by what is delivered to you. This is where magic and miracles happen." — Dr. Joe Vitale: Motivational author and speaker
"Nothing can add more power
to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets." —Nido Qubein: is a businessman and motivational speaker
"All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord." — Earl Nightingale: was an American motivational speaker and author
"If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got." — High-tech proverb
"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. —Peter Drucker: was an influential writer & management consultant
"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination." — Earl Nightingale: was an American motivational speaker and author
"Picture yourself in your minds eye as having
already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal." — Earl Nightingale: was an American motivational speaker and author
"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere." — Lee Iacocca: Businessman, author, former CEO of Chrysler Corporation
"In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible." —Marcus Tullius Cicero: was a ancient Roman philosopher and politician
"Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them." — Bruce Barton: was an American author, advertising executive,
and politician
"The biggest mistake that you can make is
to believe that you are working for somebody else.
Job security is gone. The driving force of a career
must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!"— Earl Nightingale: was an American motivational speaker and author
"Potential is all of the resources you have in front of you. Efficiency is putting those resources to use effectively."
— Garrett Gunderson: is an entrepreneur and author
"Your wealth is hiding under
the very thing you are afraid to do." — Dr. Joe Vitale: Motivational author and speaker
"True wealth is a byproduct of living a principled life."— Garrett Gunderson: is an entrepreneur and author
"If you turn it over to the universe you will be surprised and dazzled by what is delivered to you. This is where magic and miracles happen."— Dr. Joe Vitale: Motivational author and speaker
"Purpose creates an opportunity for value creation. Passion follows purpose. Passion creates energy, money is attracted to energy." — Garrett Gunderson: is an entrepreneur and author
"Good advertising does not just
circulate information. It penetrates the
public mind with desires and belief." — Leo Burnett
"Thoughts are sending out that magnetic signal that is drawing the parallel back to you."— Dr. Joe Vitale
Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!
Richard Bach
"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size." — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Great spirits have always encountered
opposition from mediocre minds."
~ Albert Einstein
"If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed,
but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks." — Leo Burnett: was a renowned 20th century advertising executive
"You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible." — Deepak Chopra
"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body." — Benjamin Franklin:
"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the
product or service fits him and sells itself." Peter F. Drucker
"The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself." — Deepak Chopra
"By three methods we may learn wisdom:
First, by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. "
— Confucius: was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher"If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must
become a worthwhile person in
your own self-development." — Brian Tracy: Author, speaker, and consultant
"Small things, done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact. What are [your] top 'small things' right now?" — David Allen: Nightingale-Conant author & productivity consultant
"The most important thing in communication
is hearing what isn't said." — Peter F. Drucker:
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
Fredrick Douglass
"You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people
get what they want." Zig Ziglar: Author and motivational speaker
"The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
— Albert Einstein: Was a theoretical physicist "It’s not about figuring out what Big Thing you are here to do. It’s about recognizing what is life-giving & turning your face in that direction. It’s about letting yourself be drawn by that which feeds your heart & soul, about being present enough to turn away from that which has no life for you to turn toward that which makes you open & open & open- like a blossom reaching toward the sun, rooted in the earth" Oriah Mountain Dreamer.
"In any moment of decision, the best
thing you can do is the right thing, the next
to best thing is the wrong thing, and the
worst thing you can do is nothing."
Theodore Roosevelt: was the 26th President of the United States
"It is always safe to assume, not that
the old way is wrong, but that
there may be a better way."
Henry F. Harrower
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."
— Aristotle: was a Greek philosopher
“'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble." Mahatma Gandhi
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it now.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
'Mistrust all those in whom the urge to punish is strong' [Goethe].
"I've failed over and over and over again
in my life and that is why I succeed."
— Michael Jordan: is a former professional basketball player
"You are the masterpiece of your own life;
you are the Michelangelo of your experience. The David that you are sculpting is you.
And you do it with your thoughts." Dr. Joe Vitale
"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds,
can change the outer aspects of their lives."
— William James: Was a philosopher and psychologist
"Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them." -- Francois de La Rochefoucald
"What you can do or dream you can do, begin it;
boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
— Johann von Goethe: Was a German poet, novelist, and dramatist
We must hurt, in order to grow.
We must fail, on order to know.
We must loose in order to gain.
The beginner scorns criticism.
The wise soul carefully weighs it.
And the Master says, "But, of course!"
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