The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.
~ Randy Pausch
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Brick walls are there for a reason →
Never predict →
I’ve always been very careful never to predict anything that has not already happened.
~ Marshall McLuhan
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Happened to things →
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
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Books are key →
Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.
~ Carl Sagan
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The shots you never take →
You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
~ Wayne Gretzky
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Don’t chase people →
Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people – the ones who really belong in your life – will come to your. And stay.
~ Will Smith
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Justice →
Justice is what love looks like in public.
~ Cornel West
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Arrive at the conviction →
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How you made them feel →
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
~ Maya Angelou
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Sixty seconds of happiness →
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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