"About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before."
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"Find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls."
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"In the end, the best way to succeed is to go small. And when you go small, you say no - a lot. A lot more than you might have even considered before."
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"When we know something that needs to be done but isn't currently getting done, we often say, I just need more discipline. Actually, we need the habit of doing it. And we need just enough discipline to build the habit."
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"If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time."
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"The path of mastering something is the combination of not only doing the best you can do at it, but also doing it the best it can be done."
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"Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus."
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"Curiosity is a self-driven motivation to explore and to learn. Learning is like... you know, you have to take your medicine. And that is what it has become. And that's unfortunate."
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"The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations. And there's Columbus - he couldn't even get Italy to pay for his voyage so he has to go to Spain."
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"I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about."
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"There is something to be said for the openness to form, and literary form because it forces you to actually think about the other person, and their motivations, and to try to see them from all sides and to really write about them not as caricature."
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"I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass."
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"The group of guys I have... They are playing off straight motivation."
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"Taking action births motivation."
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"One can contrive a religious motivation for virtually any choice of action, from commitment to the highest ideals to support for the most horrendous atrocities. In the sacred texts, we can find uplifting calls for peace, justice and mercy, along with the most genocidal passages in the literary canon. Conscience is our guide, whatever trappings we might choose to clothe it in."
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"Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course."
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"I daydreamed for motivation. I didn't lie to myself and talk about my passions and how if I was passionate enough about something I could be successful at it."
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"You could be beaten down by anybody and by everybody and it doesn't matter what everybody else thinks it's how you see yourself and what your own dreams are. And, you know, anybody who started a business and build a business knows there's going to be lots of times when you feel beaten down and you need some motivation and that's when I turn to that book among others."
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"Today is the youngest you will ever be. Live like it."
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"Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?"
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