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"One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons."
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"Never, never doubt who you are!"
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"Success requires preparation and persistence effort."
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"Always walk toward the direction of your love."
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"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."
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"You are an achiever, aim high."
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"There is moderation even in excess."
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"Travel steadily in your define path."
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"Without strength can we work?"
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"It's easy enough to be pleasant when everything goes like a song but the man who is worthwhile is the man who can smile when everything goes dead wrong."
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"Comfort without action is only discomfort and dissatisfaction in latent action. It always seems we shall have a good tomorrow until a bad tomorrow comes."
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"It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check."
Time
"And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey."
Desire
"One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons."
Motivational
"Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing."
Life
"A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties."
Education
"Nobody does anything for one reason."
Reason
"Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for."
Act
"The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing."
Road
"Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves."
Books
"John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university."
Vision
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