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Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.
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The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of…
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The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks…
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The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength…
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On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
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The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
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The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel…
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If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not…
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Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work…
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F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I…
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The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for…
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The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
— Honore de Balzac
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To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear,…
— Steven Brust
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
— Edmund Burke
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
— John Burroughs
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Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action…
— Jack Canfield
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
— Thomas Carlyle
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
— Andrew Carnegie
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The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
— Oswald Chambers
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Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you…
— John Jay Chapman
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The day will happen whether or not you get up.
— John Ciardi
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It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
— Vaclav Havel
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What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking…
— Tony Robbins
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