"When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can't even correct yours."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

Growth, Imitation, Mistake, Learning, Identity

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"When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can't even correct yours."

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"The cost of growth is always a small act of violence."

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"What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead."

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"You can't BREED at a place where you can't BREATHE. Therefore, FIX yourself where you FIT."

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"You will learn, but you have to act. You will be given, but you have to receive. Stretch your hands and take up your laurels by the power put in you!"

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"Accept corrections and you'll improve and increase."

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"All things are difficult before they are easy."

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"He who doesn't want to face his challenges shall always face challenges!"

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"Everybody want to experience some form of pleasure in whatever they are doing and one of the sure ways of doing that is by seeing increase in your endeavors or results."

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"Good character going bad is like a beast escaping it's cage, it will be hard to capture it again!"

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"Without adversity and trials we may never know what we are capable of."

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