People overestimate what they can do in a single day and underestimate what they can do in their whole lives.
~ unknown
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Quotes
No one knows
No one but you knows how hard you work, how many hours you put in behind the scenes, so rely on yourself for approval, not the outside world.
~ unknown
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Assert integrity of purpose
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safer. The creatures of the common place. The slaves of the ordinary.
~ Cecil Beaton
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Attitude
The problem is not the problem.
~ Jack Sparrow, in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, (2003 film)
The problem is you attitude about the problem.
Do you understand?
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Thinking
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is think with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
~ A. A. Milne
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Painful experience
An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes one can make in a very narrow field.
~ Niels Bohr
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Hang on
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
~ unknown
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Happiness
Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.
~ unknown
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On my way
I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.
~ Carl Sagan
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Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.
~ Agent ‘K’, in Men in Black, (1997 film)
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Character
If you don’t have enemies, you don’t have character.
~ Paul Newman
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Humility
Why is humility a virtue? Because it avoids complacency and self satisfaction, and promotes a view that there is much to be learned, much to be improved, much to be sought out, much yet to be achieved, much to be admired, understood and perhaps emulated.
~ unknown
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None of my business
My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. …and it makes life so much easier.
~ Anthony Hopkins
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Good and bad
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both charity and love.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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Choices
One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; It is expressed in the choices one makes.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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Mark of an educated mind
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~ Aristotle
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Your former self
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; True nobility is being superior to your former self.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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Reverse
Life can only be understood in reverse.
~ unknown
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Watch the river
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
~ A. A. Milne
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Remain upbeat
A wise man hopes things will change, but remains upbeat when things do not.
~ unknown
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