See also Inspirational Quotes.
I do not intend to take dangerous chances, both because I have no wish to get hurt and because a fall would stop my experimenting, which I would not like at all. The man who wishes to keep at the problem long enough to really learn anything positively must not take dangerous risks.
~ Wilbur Wright
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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
~ Haruki Murakami
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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
~ Richard Cavett
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The best arguments in the world won’t change a single person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.
~ Richard Powers
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My definition of wisdom is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions.
~ Naval Ravikant
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People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing—refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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To-do lists tend to be long; Success lists are short. One pulls you in all directions; The other aims you in a specific direction. One is a disorganized directory and the other is an organized directive. If a list isn’t built around success, then that’s not where it takes you. If your to-do list contains everything, then it’s probably taking you everywhere but where you really want to go.
~ Gary Keller
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Be like a postage stamp—stick to one thing until you get there.
~ Josh Billings
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Giving yourself the time and sapce to think and feel is crucial to your existence. Personhood requires encapsulation. You have to find a way to be yourself before you can share yourself.
~ Jaron Lanier
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
~ Anne Lamott
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This week I’ve been reading a lot and doing little work. That’s the way things ought to be. That’s surely the road to success.
~ Anne Frank
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One day at a time. It sounds so simple. It actually is simple but it isn’t easy: It requires incredible support and fastidious structuring.
~ Russell Brand
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Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years.
~ Japanese proverb
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The most reliable way to change your entire life is by not changing your entire life… Improve the whole by mastering one thing.
~ James Clear
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The root of the word ‘priority’ is singular… It was a singular word—the one thing. In modern times, we’ve turned it into ‘priorities,’ but then all of a sudden it turns into eight, ten, 15 things and that defeats the purpose.
~ Shaka Smart
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To achieve great things, two things are needed: A plan and not quite enough time.
~ Leonard Bernstein
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We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that at last we are disguised to ourselves.
~ Rochefoucauld
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To concentrate your mind on something is not the true purpose of zen. The true purpose is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
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Sometimes you don’t know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
~ Gunnar Freyr
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In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance—when you least expect it—sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.
~ Nicholas Sparks
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