Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What’s a sun-dial in the shade.
Benjamin Franklin
Aim for the moon
If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
Vince Lombardi
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Intrinsic motivation
If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
Steve Jobs
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Make the best out of it
If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.
Zig Ziglar
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Solutions
Negative people don’t want solutions. Solutions mean they have to work to find something else to be negative about.
Tom Ziglar
How is this motivating? Well it should motivate you to cut negative people loose and don’t let them drag you down!
Surround yourself with positive, solution-oriented people and you will experience a gain in happiness and joy.
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Learning and training
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
P. B. Medawar
Similar to your muscles being sore after a hard workout, your brain gets strained by use. This should not discourage but encourage you to use it even more. Train your brain like you would train your muscles, by use and intelligent repetition.
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Enjoy the moment
There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Trial and error
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn Monroe
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Just get startet already
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
Ivan Turgenev
Open your eyes
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Alexander Graham Bell
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