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You feel what you're focused on.
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No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.
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I was like, "If I don't change my mind, if I don't change my heart, if I don't develop some skill, I'm always going to be sleeping in my car."
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Pain is part of life. Suffering is an option.
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I always believe leaders are readers, so you've got to read 30 minutes a day of something that's going to inspire you.
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Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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Anything can be achieved with a strong enough why!
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The beliefs that we use to define our own individuality, what makes us unique - good, bad, or indifferent - from other individuals.
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One belief that I've developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God's delays are not God's denials.
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Passion is the genesis of genius.
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Our culture teaches us that making significant changes takes a long time and is difficult to do. This is simply NOT true. Change happens in an instant. It is not a process - it is something you do in an instant by simply making a decision.
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You and I must realize that the English language is filled with words that, in addition to their literal meanings, convey distinct emotional intensity. For example, if you develop a habit of saying you 'hate' things - you 'hate' your hair; you 'hate' your job; you 'hate' having to do something - do you think this raises the intensity of your negative emotional states more than if you use a phrase like 'I prefer something else'?
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What we focus on determines how we feel. And how we feel - our state of mind - powerfully influences our actions and interactions.
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Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, and my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
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The words that we attach to our experience become our experience.
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Everybody has a different strategy, but everybody agrees that active management does not beat the market.
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The power of reading a great book is that you start thinking like the author. For those magical moments while you are immersed in the forests of Arden, you are William Shakespeare; while you are shipwrecked on Treasure Island, you are Robert Louis Stevenson; while you are communing with nature at Walden, you are Henry David Thoreau. You start to think like they think, feel like they feel, and use imagination as they would. Their references become your own, and you carry these with you long after you've turned the last page.
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Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.
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The kind of person other people perceive you to be controls their responses to you.
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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?
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It's not about the goal. It's about becoming the type of person that can accomplish the goal.
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It's not leadership by position that allows people to succeed; it's the capacity to influence the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, and the actions of other human beings.
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You can't influence somebody when you're judging them.
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Meaning equals emotion and emotion equals life. Choose consciously and wisely.