"One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life."
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"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
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"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project."
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"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."
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"No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed."
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"If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won't require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone could ever manage them. Their fire comes from within, not from without. Their motivation is internal, not external."
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"Never place a period where God has placed a comma."
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"One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested."
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"Intelligences are enhanced when a person is engaged in activities that involve the exercise of that intelligence. It helps to have good teachers, ample resources, and personal motivation. Anyone can improve any intelligence; but it is easier to improve the intelligence if those factors are available and if you have high potential in that intelligence."
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"If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside."
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"There is no education like adversity."
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"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."
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"One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons."
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"Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives."
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"Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed."
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"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."
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"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."
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"For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men."
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"What makes life dreary is the want of a motive."
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"The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition."
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