Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary β the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there's a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trimtab. It's a miniature rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trimtab. Society thinks it's going right by you, that it's left you altogether. But if you're doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go. So I said, call me Trimtab.
People who don't see you every day have a hard time understanding how on some days--good days--you can run three miles, but can barely walk across the parking lot on other days,' [my mom] said quietly.
I must admit, that I have learned more from my negative experiences than I have ever learned from my positive one.
We need to send our words out in the direction we want them to go. In other words, we need to start talking victory when weβre staring at defeat. We need to start talking healing when weβre feeling sick. We need to start blessing and prosperity when we donβt have anything. We need to speak about marching when we feel like quitting.