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		The time and thought which most persons waste in aimless effort would accomplish wonders if properly directed with some special object in view. In order to do this, it is necessary to center your mental force upon a specific thought and hold it there, to the exclusion of all other thoughts.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Charles F. Haanel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mads Mikkelsen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Irina Shayk 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Shepard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barton Gellman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Imelda May 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Oliver Stone 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Friedrich Nietzsche 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Write like there is no tomorrow so that others may read about today. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jen Selinsky 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Brian Tracy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bailey Chase 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ryszard Kapuscinski 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The time and thought which most persons waste in aimless effort would accomplish wonders if properly directed with some special object in view. In order to do this, it is necessary to center your mental force upon a specific thought and hold it there, to the exclusion of all other thoughts. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Charles F. Haanel