Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
~ Lao Tzu
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Enlightenment →
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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The center of your being →
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
~ Lao Tzu
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Carl Sagan on the Power of Books and Reading as the Path to Democracy →
Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.
~ Carl Sagan
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I don’t think it has to be physical books — recall Mr. Sagan is from the pre-Internet epoch — but definitely *reading*, and definitely you have to be doing the hard work of deciding for yourself what you are reading.
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Books are key →
Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.
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The shots you never take →
You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
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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.
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Justice →
Justice is what love looks like in public.
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