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“Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.”
― Zig Ziglar

“The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refused to have anything as a gift.”
― Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture

“I believe the truth is only offensive when we're lying.”
― Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

“The eternal problem of the human being is how to structure his waking hours”
― Eric Berne, Games People Play

“When a person is not doing his job, there can only be two reasons for it. The person either can’t do it or won’t do it; he is either not capable or not motivated. To determine which, we can employ a simple mental test: if the person’s life depended on doing the work, could he do it? If the answer is yes, that person is not motivated; if the answer is no, he is not capable.”
― Andrew S. Grove, High Output Management

“The single most important task of a manager is to elicit peak performance from his subordinates. So if two things limit high output, a manager has two ways to tackle the issue: through training and motivation.”
― Andrew S. Grove, High Output Management

“Social reality is an incredible gift. You can simply make stuff up, like a meme or a tradition or a law, and if other people treat it as real, it becomes real. Our social world is a buffer we build around the physical world. The author Lynda Barry writes, “We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.”
― Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain

“No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself”
― Seneca

“Why are you keeping your fists clenched? Open them. Let what comes come. Let what goes go. You deserve much more than what your fists can hold.”
― Shunya

“Customers are not interested in your story. They are, rather, interested in being invited into a story that has them surviving and winning in the end.”
― Donald Miller, Marketing Made Simple: A Step-By-Step Storybrand Guide for Any Business

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

“As legendary Harvard marketing professor Theodore Levitt put it, “People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole.”
― Chris McChesney, The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

“My Dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.
-Falsely yours”
― Charles Bukowski

“To be happy with yourself in the present moment while maintaining a dream of your future is a grand recipe for manifestation. When you feel so whole that you no longer care whether “it” will happen, that’s when amazing things materialize before your eyes. I’ve learned that being whole is the perfect state of creation. I’ve seen this time and time again in witnessing true healings in people all over the world. They feel so complete that they no longer want, no longer feel lack, and no longer try to do it themselves. They let go, and to their amazement, something greater than they are responds—and they laugh at the simplicity of the process.”
― Joe Dispenza, You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter

“The only true form of freedom, the only ethical form of freedom, is through self-limitation. It is not the privilege of choosing everything you want in your life, but rather, choosing what you will give up in your life.”
― Mark Manson, Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

“God does not begin by asking our ability, but more of our availability. When we prove our dependability, He will in crease our capability.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
― Bruce Lee

“The kind of lying that is most deadly is withholding, or keeping back information from someone we think would be affected by it.”
― Brad Blanton, Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth

“Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Time tells you what you didn’t accomplish. Focus turns off the clock and directs all your energy to the result.”
― Tim S. Grover, Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness

“Focus is about controlling your behavior, so it becomes easier to do the right things, and harder to be distracted by the wrong things.”
― Tim S. Grover, Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness

“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. ”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“We think in generalities, but we live in details.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.

Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and the basis arising from what is already actual, are both of them necessary and interconnected.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“The purpose of thinking is to let the ideas die instead of us dying.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“We would rather be ruined than changed
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.”
― W H Auden, The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue