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"Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have courage to complain, that's their problem."
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"You'd be surprised who will back down when you speak up."
"Being Nice Has Its Limitations. While you will certainly attract more bees with honey, there are times when being nice can backfire. Take it from a naturally kind person, being a "bitch has its time and place. There will be times when you must engage with mean, rude, and inconsiderate people."
"I'm not bossy - I just happen to be more capable than most everyone else."
"There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed."
"No" works just fine as a complete sentence. You don't have to explain yourself.I said no, then stopped talking."
"Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining."
"Learn to be assertive without anger attached to it."
"Strong people don't put others down. They lift them up and slam them on the ground for maximum damage."
"Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have courage to complain, that's their problem."
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"To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."
"The acomodador or giving-up point: there is always an event in our lives that is responsible for us failing to progress: a trauma, a particularly bitter defeat, a disappointment in love, even a victory that we did not quite understand, can make cowards of us and prevent us from moving on. As part of the process of increasing his hidden powers, the shaman must first free himself from that giving-up point and, to do so, he must review his while life and find out where it occured."
"When we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only reason for seeking a reward is to know what to do with that reward."
"A threat leads to nothing if it is not accepted. In fighting the good fight, you should never forget that. Just as you should never forget that both attacking and fleeing are part of the fight. What isn't a part of the fight is becoming paralyzed by fear."
"I've been through all this before,' he says to his heart." 'Yes, you have been through all this before,' replies his heart. 'But you have never been beyond it."
"I ask myself: Are Defeats necessary ?Well,necessary or not, they happen.When we first begin fighting for our dream, we've no experience and make many mistakes.The Secret of life, though,is to fall seven times and to get up eight times !"
"Fear exists before and after, but not while the shots are being fired, because, at that moment, you see men at their very limit, capable of the most heroic of actions and the most inhumane."
"We are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility."
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