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"He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success."
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Personal Development
"Goals and dreams are the entrepreneur's mental energy. However, the same goals and dreams that drive his behavior will also drive him to an early grave if he doesn't take care of his physical energy through a mix of exercise and relaxation. Energy manipulation is the ability to feed the mind with dreams and sustain the body so it will keep up with those dreams."
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Personal Development
"There is practically nothing in life you are set out to do that you cannot accomplish, it only takes you to make you."
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Personal Development
"Men of great ambition have sought happiness . . . and have found fame."
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Personal Development
"Action achieves ambition."
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Personal Development
"A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best."
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Personal Development
"When that the poor have cried Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious And Brutus is an honourable man."
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Personal Development
"She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she ever would submit to... She was not much deceived as to her own skill either as an artist or a musician, but she was not unwilling to have others deceived, or sorry to know her reputation for accomplishment often higher than it deserved."
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Personal Development
"To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations."
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Personal Development
"...I say to you, without pleasure, that this son of ours will be a great man, because -- well -- because he is not very intelligent. He can see only one desire at a time. I said he tested his dreams; he will murder every dream with the implacable arrows of his will. This boy will win to every goal of his aiming; for he can realize no thought, no reason, but his own. And I am sorry for his coming greatness..."
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Personal Development
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"A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation."
Observation
"I had learned years ago never to give original documents to anyone if I could help it."
Caution
"My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind."
Tradition
"Osman and Prideep had been in my employment for some weeks. Every Friday I would take the to lunch. It was the high point of their calender. During the meal I would harangue them as a reminder of what they had been hired for: but my orations never seemed to increase their output. I realised later that, in the East, a commitment to produce does not automatically accompany employment."
Culture
"Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster."
Leadership
"For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure."
Discovery
"In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough."
Adaptation
"A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you."
Journey
"As the man was bundled into an armoured police van, he turned and shouted: 'Don't waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!'I stood there thinking. He was right. Ours is a society of followers, trapped by an island mentality."
Individuality
"Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives."
Contemplation
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