Emily Dickinson
Poet
"If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things."
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Pete Carroll
Football Coach
"I’ve learned that possibly the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fear—not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparation—you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face."
Leon Brown
Artist
"It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose"
Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"So over you is the greatest enemy a man can have — and that is fear. I know some of you are afraid to listen to the truth — you have been raised on fear and lies. But I am going to preach to you the truth until you are free of that fear..."
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"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body"
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"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good."
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"Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized."
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"Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary."
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"Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute."
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"The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions. Instead, you can be present as the awareness behind the thoughts and emotions."
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"It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level."
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"Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown."
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"Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you From where you hide."
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"As you discover your daily good, and believe in it, and think about it, expect it to continue."
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"Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related."
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"You have to hope that [good things] happen to you. [...] That's the only thing we really, surely have, is hope. You hope that you can be alive, that things will happen to you that you'll actually witness, that you'll participate in. Rather than life just rolling over you, and you wake up and it's Thursday, and what happened to Monday? Whatever the best part of my life has been, has been as a result of that remembering."
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"Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight"
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"Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you have condemned them, do not despair of yourself. For both ruin and recovery are from within."
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"Your paycheck is not your employer's responsibility, it's your responsibility. Your employer has no control over your value, but you do."
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"Don't waste your time lookin' over your shoulder; those loves from the past ain't getting' no closer. When I look in my future, you're all I can see, so honey, don't go lovin' on nobody but me."
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"Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."
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"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."
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"We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or that. And that shell makes a lot of noise, and that noise we call living, and with that we are satisfied."
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"It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening."
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