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The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in lov...

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Barbara EhrenreichBright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

Much popular self-help literature normalizes sexism. Rather than linking habits of being, usually co...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

The opposite of "never enough" isn't abundance or "more than you could ever imagine." The opposite o...

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do...

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

Compassionate people are boundaried people.

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Brené BrownThe Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality.

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Brian TracyMaximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills that Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed

You'll always get out of life what you put in-and you control what youput in.

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Brian TracyMaximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills that Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed

Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses

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Brian TracyNo Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline

All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.

The world is your perception of it. Inside and outside always match - they're reflections of each ot...

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Byron KatieA Friendly Universe: Sayings to Inspire and Challenge You

it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two y...

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Dale CarnegieHow to Win Friends and Influence People

Just handle what's in front of you now. and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll s...

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Dan MillmanSacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

There is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be ...

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Dan MillmanWay of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

Where are you? HereWhat time is it? NowWhat are you? This moment.

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Dan MillmanWay of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

If someone who is agitated comes to visit you, wanting to discuss their agitation and weigh the pros...

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Horror. I can't manage it. I become--well--horrified. Self-help books have a similar effect. When as...

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The wind of God is always blowing... but you must hoist your sail.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she tol...

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You have no obligations to your former self, they are dumber than you and they don’t exist.

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Hank GreenThe Lizzie Bennet Diaries Transmedia Booklet

Don’t play for safety. It’s the most dangerous thing in the world.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be...

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Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so th...

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The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead...

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A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic...

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Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new ent...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solu...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you lov...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive break...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have some...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn'...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be di...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a ...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed ...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering ...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it ...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the cont...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

All force strives forward to work far and wideTo live and grow and ever to expand;Yet we are checked...

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I ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each growing according to a unique plan. Lo...

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Julia CameronThe Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ...

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Marianne WilliamsonTears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

Happiness is a mental habit, a mental attitude, and if it is not learned and practiced in the presen...

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I have found that one of the commonest causes of unhappiness among my patients is that they are atte...

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Our errors, mistakes, failures, and sometimes even our humiliations, were necessary steps in the lea...

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Maxwell MaltzPsycho-Cybernetics

Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you’re ready or not,...

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A philosophy a system of principles that will guide your thoughts and actions.

Tell the world what you intend to do but first show it.

IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would f...

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Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century