"Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly."
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"The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become."
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"An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement."
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"The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail."
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"A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change."
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"This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness. This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition, hardly altered by differences of clime or creed."
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"For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement."
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"No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed."
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"You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement."
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"Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally."
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"As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement."
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"One point of view gives a one dimensional world."
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"While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements."
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"Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was."
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"An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production."
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"Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre."
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"The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more."
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"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."
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"Take thoughts and turn them into actions, turn them into results, turn your dreams into reality. That's really the science of achievement."
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"I hate failure and I am in love with achievement."
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