Be responsible

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Les Brown

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The idea of principles

Principles only mean something if you stick by them when they’re inconvenient.

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Learning

If you want the kids’ test scores up, bring back band and bring back shop and get kids actually learning stuff instead of teaching them how to take a test.

Adam Savage

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With discipline to reward

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Jim Rohn

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You’ve got a hand and a voice

Oh, but every bad thing that’s happened to you has happened to better men.

So don’t explain that you’ve lost your way, that you’ve got no place to go: You’ve got a hand and a voice and you’re not alone, brother, that’s all you need to know.

Phil Ochs

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Put in the hard work

There’s no talent here, this is hard work.

This is an obsession.

Talent does not extist, we are all equals as human beings. You could be anyone if you put in the time. You will reach the top, and that’s that.

I am not talented, I am obsessed.

Conor McGregor

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Visions

Throughout the centuries, there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Ayn Rand

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Don’t give up!

Don’t give up what you want most, for what you want now.

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A positive perspective

She can live through it, Miss Taggart, because we do not hold the belief that this earth is a realm of misery where man is doomed to destruction. We do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and we do not live in chronic dread of disaster. We do not expect disaster until we have a specific reason to expect it – and when we encounter it, we are free to fight it. It is not happiness, but suffering that we consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that we regard as the abnormal exception in human life.

John Galt, Atlas Shrugged

Aim high

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Charles Kettering

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