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She felt vulnerable and alone and had a sense that a great opportunity was slipping through her fing...

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There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exac...

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Paulo CoelhoThe Devil and Miss Prym

Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only ...

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People often overestimate what they can accomplish in one year. But they greatly underestimate what ...

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I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' an...

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Philip LarkinPhilip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Good is not good where better is expected.

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostil...

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The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth, and prosperity in a world hosti...

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There is one other error in the Gondsman's line of resoning, I believe, on ap urely emotional level....

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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To ...

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The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

The world is all gates all opportunities strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Good is not good, where better is expected.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity w...

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Good is not good where better is expected.

Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ab...

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Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the off...

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Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

Good is not good where better is expected.

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the w...

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It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and stru...

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Good is not good, where better is expected.

Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuff...

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Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

The thing is, incremental daily progress (negative or positive) is what actually causes transformati...

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It is said that there are four kinds of horses: excellent ones, good ones, poor ones, and bad ones. ...

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Good is not good where better is expected.

My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, bec...

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Good is not good, where better is expected.

Great things in business are never done by one person,They are done by a team of people

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Steve JobsSteve Jobs: His Own Words and Wisdom

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the cal...

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The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us...

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Do what you can with what you have where you are.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great ...

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No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the bes...

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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have...

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There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

Good is not good, where better is expected.

Good is not good where better is expected.

Good is not good, where better is expected.

Good is not good where better is expected.

Good is not good, where better is expected.

Good is not good, where better is expected.

Good is not good where better is expected.

Good is not good, where better is expected.

Good is not good where better is expected.

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for...

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Tom RobbinsHalf Asleep in Frog Pajamas

a person who does not have respect for time, and does not have a sense of timing, can achieve little...

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They are able who think they are able.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achieveme...

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The human worker will go the way of the horse.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to...

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so...

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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure...

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however love...

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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, ha...

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I'm a slow walker but I never walk back.

The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effectin...

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We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained.

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Alain de BottonThe News: A User's Manual

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

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Alan AldaThings I Overheard While Talking to Myself

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from ...

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Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement.

There was something heartbreakingly beautiful about the lights of distant ships, I thought. It was s...

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Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalit...

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Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your me...

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Mindfulness helps us to focus on one goal at a time. It helps us to be more relaxed, patience and co...

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

First set a strong and clear inner voice and then do all that you want to achieve and the door will ...

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.(Fr...

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When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. ...

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Anne LamottGrace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Give me where to stand and I will move the earth.

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attain...

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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain o...

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Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but...

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Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touc...

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She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing it...

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People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But b...

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Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they ...

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He had always wanted to write music, and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If ...

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We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few work...

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Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and ...

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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement...

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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no m...

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The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonish...

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