http://www.successmagazine.com/anthony-hopkins-oscar-winner/PARAMS/article/981 
Anthony Hopkins acknowledges that Attention Deficit Disorder and dyslexia are factors in his life. What can we glean from his abundant life as correlates to his success?
Sanctuary - “a place that allows him to do all the things he needs to do”
Tension -”I think it’s very necessary to have a tension in life that keeps us moving. If we become totally peaceful, we die.”
Anger -”“I believe that there’s something good in nature, in that if you have something that you think is a problem, which I thought I had as a kid, it turns into a great gift if you use it that way. Because it gives you enough GRRRR to help you rise above it, or it sucks you down into the mud. Sometimes a good degree of constructive anger can get you going. And I was a pretty angry kid.”
Self-doubt - “Self-doubt–and I’m loaded with it–keeps us grounded, in a way. We’re not gods. But it can also be quite crippling. I have to actually boost myself against my inner nature, which had been for many years negative, destructive, all that stuff. I have to go against myself, my own inclination, and overcome. And there’s a resistance inside me that says, ‘Are you for real?’ ” He nods. “Yes. I am.”
Roles - ““It’s a role,” he says. “When you take a role, you program the mind to say, ‘OK, this will be our way.’ I’ve experienced a few people who are willfully miserable. They’ve said, ‘We’ll just be miserable.’ Or you can reprogram and readjust to say the opposite. Let’s do something. Work out, get fit, get healthy, or how about just being cheerful?”
Explosive palettes- “When I paint, my credo is, ‘They can’t arrest me and put me in prison if I do it badly,’ ” he says. “That gives me freedom. I follow my inspiration and intuition, and it comes out better than I could expect.”
Dream- “That was my dream, come out here and be in movies. And that’s what I did. We live in such a goal-oriented society, but if you set a little dream, a little mantra in your head of what you want, you become it.”
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