Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
~ Will Smith
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Quotes
So implausible
Not long ago, what we have today was so implausible that nobody bothered to say it would never happen.
~ Marc Andreessen
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Just three things
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
~ Lao Tzu
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Pain is temporary
Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, or an hour, or a day, or even a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. However, if you quit that pain will last forever.
~ Lance Armstrong
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Skill is developed
The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have dreams, who want to do things. Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.
~ Will Smith
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No hope
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
~ Albert Einstein
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Enlightenment
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
~ Lao Tzu
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Begin the morning
Begin the morning by saying to yourself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. … I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor hate him.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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No plan B
There’s no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.
~ Will Smith
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Those who show up
Decisions are made by those who show up.
~ Jennifer Pahlka
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Mastery
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
~ Lao Tzu
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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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