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The person who wins the Nobel Prize in biology is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes on them. It’s the person who knew what to look for. Cultivating that capacity to seek what’s significant, always willing to question whether you’re on the right track, that’s what education is going to be about, whether it’s using computers and internet, or pencil and paper and books.
~ Noam Chomsky
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New goals don’t deliver new results. New lifestyles do. And a lifestyle is a process, not an outcome. For this reason, your energy should go into building better habits, not chasing better results.
~ James Clear
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Books are more likely to change minds than conversations. There is too much happening internally during conversation: Did that sound stupid? What do they think of me? Will I lose the friendship over this opinion? Books can let you chew on an idea without social risk.
~ James Clear
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
~ Bell Hooks
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Just keep in mind the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
~ Epictetus
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Today is the only day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to try just one more time.
~ Thomas Edison
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The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at explaining than doing.
~ Nassim Taleb
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
~ Albert Schweitzer
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I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.
~Larry King
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Things that keep talented people from fulfilling their potential:
– Trying to please everyone.
– Imitating the desires of others.
– Chasing status without questioning why.
– Playing superhero and trying to do it all alone.
– Dividing your attention between too many projects.
~ James Clear
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There are nearly endless opportunities to improve each day and finding them largely boils down to being curious. People who are better in the end are usually curious in the beginning.
~ James Clear
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The biggest generator of long-term results is learning to do things when you don’t feel like doing them.
~Shane Parrish
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Reading speed is nothing more than signalling. Skim broadly to find something worth reading. Then dive in slowly and deeply. It’s not how fast you read but what you absorb that matters.
~ Shane Parrish
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The secret to winning is learning how to lose. That is, learning to bounce back from failure and disappointment – undeterred – and continuing to steadily march toward your potential. Your response to failure determines your capacity for success.
~ James Clear
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Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
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Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~ Mark Twain
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A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.
~Paulo Coelho
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When you learn, teach. When you get, give.
~ Mary Angelou
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If you do the work, you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.
~ Michael Jordan
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Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.
~ Pete Seeger
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Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.
~ Anne Sweeney
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Don’t rest on your laurels. There’s always going to be someone behind you who’s going to be better than you. So, you need to get out there and keep working.
~ Sheila Johnson
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If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don’t, you will find an excuse.
~ Jim Rohn
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The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will readily answer, but how many questions he inspires them to ask which he finds hard to answer.
~Alice Wellington Rollins
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If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
~ Dalai Lama
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In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.
~George R R Martin
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The question is not whether we will face failure: each of us will face adversity in our work and in our lives. We will all fail. The question is, how will we respond?
~Jill Siler
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I’m not across social media. I don’t understand social media. I don’t want to understand social media. I’m not
interested in other people’s opinions that don’t matter.
~ Des Hasler
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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
~ Steve Jobs
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Success isn’t determined by how many times you win, but by how you play
the week after you lose.
– Pele
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It is vital now more than ever that you focus on accomplishment, not activity.
~ Dr Tommy Weir
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The way to enjoy life is to wrap up one goal and start right on the next one. Don’t linger too long at the table of success, the only way to enjoy another meal is to get hungry.
~ Jim Rohn
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Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~Howard Thurman
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Habits are a double-edged sword. Bad habits can cut you down just as easily as good habits can build you up, which is why understanding the details is crucial.
~ James Clear
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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
~ Mary Angelou
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There is only one way to succeed in everything, and that is to give it everything.
~ Vince Lombardi
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We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they have all learned to live together in the same box.
~ Robert Fulghum
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When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Be in the driver’s seat. (Don’t be a follower. Stay true to yourself. Don’t let other people’s dumb ideas get you into trouble.)
~ Bill Murphy Jr’s mother
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There are seven days in one week and someday is not one of them
~ Anon
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There is nothing wrong with striving to be the best, fastest, richest or smartest, but remember that your story doesn’t have to end there.
~ Dr Tommy Weir
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It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
~ Nelson Mandela
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