"You can't make someone do something just because you want them to. What you do have, however, is the opportunity to influence their choices."

Influence, Choice, Opportunity, Freedom

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"You can't make someone do something just because you want them to. What you do have, however, is the opportunity to influence their choices."

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"By not stepping into your greatness, you are letting down everyone around you whom you can inspire, touch, or influence."

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"The drum to which we march reveals the conductor to whom we're listening."

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"Every self-respecting act of persuasion must find appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to kindness or remorse. Isabella looked down and slowly nodded."

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Spanish Novelist

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"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."

Christian Nestell Bovee, American Author

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"Share your success stories with others. Don't brag, but don't hide your light. People want (and need) to be inspired and instructed. I know I want to follow and learn from successful people. Isn't that the basis for every business and self-help book? People will also give you good ideas to build on your own wins when you share openly. And when you write out your wins to an audience, your own ideas start to grow within you. Will you try? What's a win you've had lately? Don't be shy about it."

Richie Norton, American Author

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"For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, factors arise which, in a similar manner to the structural factor, exert some influence upon the brightness of the interference points but not upon their location."

Max von Laue, German Scientist

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"Those words, that voice, had more power over me than any phantom ever could."

Richelle Mead, American Author

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"Power and glory are two dialectic energies working in common ground. Taking a glimpse of the meandering under swell of glory in the shade of power, can be very inspiring and illuminating. ['The power and the glory']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

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"Don't be afraid to take a chance. The worst that can happen is that you don't succeed this time."

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"Nobody from your past should be held responsible for your future. The only person accountable for your future is you."

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"Be honest with yourself. You can't be the best you can be unless you know who you really are."

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"Most people are fine with fine and okay with okay. If you want to be the best you can be, make sure you're not."

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"Most people are doing their best, most of the time."

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"If someone tries to undermine your commitment, re-evaluateyour commitment to them."

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"Don't depend on others to fuel your self-belief. Develop your self-belief so that it becomes self-sustaining."

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"Focusing on scarcity will only create more of the same."

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"Before passing judgement on someone's choices, stop and look at the questions they were trying to answer."

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"It's hard to be present when your attention is suffering information overload. Switch off and just sit still."

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