"In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life."

Life, Being, Teenage, Universe

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

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"You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Life, Survival, Heart, Needs, Wisdom

"If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Life, Perception, Truth, Wisdom

"The earth is hiring and the pay is your legacy."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Life, Maxims, Weight

"Learn to be a responder, not a reactor."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win."

Sports, Games

"If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem."

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"My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about."

Business, First

"In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league."

Age, Basketball

"That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned."

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"I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity."

Respect, Popularity

"Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down."

"Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't."

"What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"

"You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need."

"If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest."

"The earth is hiring and the pay is your legacy."

"Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find."

"Learn to be a responder, not a reactor."

"So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state."

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"To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win."

"If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem."

"My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about."

"In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league."

"I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit."

"With the crowds on your side, it's easier to play up to your potential."

"I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court."

"That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned."

"I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity."

"Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better."