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#1

“Your potential, the absolute best you’re capable of—that’s the metric to measure yourself against. Your standards are. Winning is not enough. People can get lucky and win. People can be assholes and win. Anyone can win. But not everyone is the best possible version of themselves.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

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#2

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

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#3

“Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

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#4

“Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones

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#5

“In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us as human beings. We may have limited choices but we can always choose. We can choose our thoughts, emotions, moods, our words, our actions; we can choose our values and live by principles. It is the choice of acting or being acted upon.”
― Stephen R. Covey

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#6

“Success demands singleness of purpose.

You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world.

Passion for something leads to disproportionate time practicing or working at it. That time spent eventually translates to skill, and when skill improves, results improve. Better results generally lead to more enjoyment, and more passion and more time is invested. It can be a virtuous cycle all the way to extraordinary results.

The ONE Thing shows up time and again in the lives of the successful because it’s a fundamental truth.

More than anything else, expertise tracks with hours invested.

The pursuit of mastery bears gifts.

When people look back on their lives, it is the things they have not done that generate the greatest regret...People’s actions may be troublesome initially; it is their inactions that plague them most with long-term feelings of regret.

Make sure every day you do what matters most. When you know what matters most, everything makes sense. When you don’t know what matters most, anything makes sense.”
― Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

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#7

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: education, knowledge-wisdom, learning, school, science, wisdom

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#8

“To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”
― Lao Tse

tags: knowledge-wisdom

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#9

“The goal shouldn’t be to make the perfect decision every time but to make less bad decisions than everyone else.”
― Spencer Fraseur, The Irrational Mind: How To Fight Back Against The Hidden Forces That Affect Our Decision Making

tags: behavioral-psychology, business-advice, business-quotes, cognitive-psychology, decision-making, decisions-in-life, inspirational-quotes, leadership-development, leadership-quotes, motivational-quotes

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#10

“Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.”
― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

tags: knowledge-wisdom, time

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#11

“Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Art of Seeing

tags: change, consciousness, movement, thought-provoking

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#12

“If a decision cannot make you....then it's not a decision”
― Eche Agubata

tags: decision-making, get-going, inspiration, motivation, start

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#13

“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
― Winston Churchill, Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches

tags: determination, perseverance

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#14

“Embrace the uncertainty of the moment.
Be curious, not fearful - for only the curious discover.”
― Yogini Patil

tags: be-curious, discover, uncertainty-quotes

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#15

“Your statistical track record for decision-making is somewhat concerning.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

tags: all-in, decision-making, jennifer-lynn-barnes, mgg, michael, sloane, stats, the-naturals

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#16

“In War: Resolution,
In Defeat: Defiance,
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War

tags: defeat, defiance, good-will, magnanimity, peace, resolution, victory, war

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#17

“A systems-first mentality provides the antidote. When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don't have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can satisfied anytime your systems is running. And the system can be successful in many different forms, not just the one you first envision.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

tags: habits, happiness, systems

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#18

“Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.”
― Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

tags: cognitive-biases, decision-making, leadership, science-and-change, strategy

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#19

“Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.”
― Terence McKenna

tags: chaos, control, ego

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#20

“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
― Steve Jobs

tags: complex, hard, simple, thinking, truth, wisdom, worth

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#21

“I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.”
― Louis C.K.

tags: advice, bored, boredom, inspirational, reprimand, young

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#22

“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
― Samuel Johnson, Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]

tags: curiosity

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#23

“When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory

tags: consequences

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#24

“Doesn’t matter if you can dream it or not, all that matters is if you can begin it or not? Take that first step.”
― Vikrmn, You By You

tags: begin, ca-vikram-verma, chartered-accountant, corpkshetra, corporate, corporate-quotes, dream, first, first-step, matter, motivational-quotes, start, step, vikram, vikram-verma, vikrmn, vvck

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#25

“How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

tags: fear, life, opportunity

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#26

“It's a fact—everyone is ignorant in some way or another.

Ignorance is our deepest secret.

And it is one of the scariest things out there, because those of us who are most ignorant are also the ones who often don't know it or don't want to admit it.

Here is a quick test:

If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.

Before it is too late, go out there and find someone who, in your opinion, believes, assumes, or considers certain things very strongly and very differently from you, and just have a basic honest conversation.

It will do both of you good.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: adapt, adaptability, assimilate, assimilation, beliefs, change, discovery, ignorance, ignorant, incorporating, introspection, learning, mutability, new, new-thought, open, open-mind, open-minded, open-mindedness, ponder, question, questioning, questions, re-evaluating, receptive, rethink, rethinking, secret, think, thinking, wise

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#27

“I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.”
― Elon Musk

tags: argument, critical-thinking, evidence, first-principles, individual, intelligence, logic, mind, mindfulness, objectivism, philosophy, psychology, rationalism, reason, reasoning, thinking

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#28

“I can say confidently that the extra time we spent slowing down to uncover the necessary truths was ultimately a faster path to a large and successful business.”
― Colin Bryar, Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

tags: business, path, slow-down, success, time, truth

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