"To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do."
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"Unfortunately, sometimes you can't have fun accomplishing your goals. Sometimes people don't have the determination, the will, the steadfastness, the tenacity, they give in under the slightest struggle."
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"It doesn’t faze me what anyone says about me. It doesn’t matter what anyone says about me. I’m a totally different entity to what other people think. Michael and Tyson are two different people. I’m Tyson here."
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"Every noble work is bound to face problems and obstacles. It is important to check your goal and motivation thoroughly. One should be very truthful, honest, and reasonable. One's actions should be good for others, and for oneself as well. Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realized, at least there will be no regret."
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"Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to be a winner.' The negative impulses around the gym can be incredible. I would hear bodybuilders complaining, 'Oh,no! Not another set!' That destroyed them. I have always believed that if you're training for nothing, you're wasting your effort!"
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"Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy."
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"All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small."
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"If you ask me, we could do with a little less motivation. - The people who are causing all the trouble seem highly motivated to me. - Serial killers, stock swindlers, drug dealers, Christian Republicans."
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"Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves."
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"I'm gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me...your great grandkids will say "wow, wasn't that a bizarre individual?""
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"Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. ... Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery."
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"A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through them."
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"Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional."
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"Maybe stories are just data with a soul."
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"I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I’m here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep."
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"How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?"
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"Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life."
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"The key to getting the most from choice is to be choosy about choosing."
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"A positive attitude and personal motivation allow you to remain excited about what you are doing - no matter how difficult the challenges may be day to day."
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"A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets."
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