The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Bruce Lee
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The cure for all
The cure for anything is salt water: Sweat, tears, or the sea.
Isak Dinesen
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Spending time
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
Zhuanzi
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The beginning of work
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato
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Losing yourself
To dare is to risk losing your footing for a moment. Not to dare is to risk losing yourself.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Make use of the storms
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what it’s all about.
Haruki Murakami
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Thanks to the loyal bunch
As many of you know, one of my goals for this blog was and is to reach one million views. So far I reached a little bit more than 500.000 views, and I am really proud of that.
But what makes me way more proud and very thankful are my loyal readers, the subscribers who get my posts every day. Some of you read the mail, some the rss-feed and some might just read the posts via wordpress. Together you make up the loyal readership that I can address every single day and as of this week you reached the 2000-people-barrier.
Wow! To be honest, it took me quite a while to grasp the fact that every day or at least every other day, 2000 people are reading my posts. As you know I do not use this blog for anything else than posting quotes and (very infrequently) some texts about motivation and I intend to keep it that way. I am very grateful for your loyalty and I enjoy the constant growth of my readership a lot. You are a big reason for me to prepare a post every day, you give me the motivation to keep this blog alive. And in return, I try my best to give you some motivation for your everyday struggles.
That’s it for today, just a big THANK YOU for your support and your trust in my content.
Best wishes,
Phil
Get started
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
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There’s always something wrong
The next suitable person you’re in light conversation with, you stop suddenly in the middle of the conversation and look at the person closely and say “What’s wrong?”
You say it in a concerned way. He’ll say, “What do you mean?” You say, “Something’s wrong. I can tell. What is it?” And he’ll look stunned and say, “How did you know?”
He doesn’t realize something’s always wrong, with everybody. Often more than one ting. He doesn’t know everybody’s always going around all the time with something wrong and believing they’re exerting great willpower and control to keep other people, for whom they think nothing’s ever wrong, from seeing it.
David Foster Wallace
Something is always wrong. And that is perfectly all right. Realise your problems, be honest to yourself and work on them, that’s what it’s all about.
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Start right now
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
Thomas J. Watson
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