Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
~ Lao Tzu
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Mastery →
The life in your years →
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
~ Abraham Lincoln
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Being realistic →
Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity.
~ Will Smith
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The cure for boredom →
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
~ Dorothy Parker
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What I might be →
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
~ Lao Tzu
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No center →
Astrophysicists assure us the universe has no center; therefore, you cannot be it.
~ David McCullough
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Not afraid to die on the treadmill →
The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I’m not afraid to die on a treadmill. I will not be out-worked, period. You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, you might be sexier than me, you might be all of those things you got it on me in nine categories. But if we get on the treadmill together, there’s two things: You’re getting off first, or I’m going to die. It’s really that simple, right? You’re not going to out-work me. It’s such a simple, basic concept. The guy who is willing to hustle the most is going to be the guy that just gets that loose ball. The majority of people who aren’t getting the places they want or aren’t achieving the things that they want in this business is strictly based on hustle. It’s strictly based on being out-worked; it’s strictly based on missing crucial opportunities. I say all the time if you stay ready, you ain’t gotta get ready.
~ Will Smith
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Brick walls are there for a reason →
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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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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A dozing ox →
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
~ Lao Tzu
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The keys to life →
The keys to life are running and reading. When you’re running, there’s a little person that talks to you and says, “Oh I’m tired. My lung’s about to pop. I’m so hurt. There’s no way I can possibly continue.” You want to quit. If you learn how to defeat that person when you’re running, you will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life. For reading: there have been gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There’s no new problem you could have–with your parents, with school, with a bully. There’s no new problem that someone hasn’t already had and written about it in a book.
~ Will Smith
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The energy of her citizens →
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
~ Dwight Eisenhower
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