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“There is something of a civil war going on within all of our lives. There is a recalcitrant South of our soul revolting against the North of our soul. And there is this continual struggle within the very structure of every individual life.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“We’re afraid to lose and fail because we think it says something about us. It doesn’t. Success didn’t either. All that failure says is that there is a chance to improve and better understand yourself.”

Ryan Holiday

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“Find out why you’re after what you’re after. Ignore those who mess with your pace. Let them covet what you have, not the other way around. Because that’s independence. That’s contentment.”

Ryan Holiday

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“Failure sucks. Deal with it. With dignity and self-respect.”

Ryan Holiday

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“Passion typically masks a weakness. Its breathlessness and impetuousness and franticness are poor substitutes for discipline, for mastery, for strength and perseverance.

Ryan Holiday

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“Ego doesn’t allow for proper incubation either. To become what we ultimately hope to become often takes long periods of obscurity, of sitting and wrestling with some topic or paradox. Humility is what keeps us there, concerned that we don’t know enough and that we must continue to study. Ego rushes to the end, rationalizes that patience is for losers (wrongly seeing it as a weakness), and assumes we’re good enough to give our talents a go in the world.”

Ryan Holiday

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“The height of cultivation runs to simplicity.”

Bruce Lee

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“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”

C. S. Lewis

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“Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“He didn’t triumph over adversity. Instead, what started out as adversity ended up being an opportunity.”

Malcolm Gladwell

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“All the outliers we’ve looked at so far were the beneficiaries of some kind of unusual opportunity. Lucky breaks don’t seem like the exception with software billionaires and rock bands and star athletes. They seem like the rule.”

Malcolm Gladwell

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“He had talent by the truckload. But that’s not the only consideration. It never is.”

Malcolm Gladwell

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“Even Mozart—the greatest musical prodigy of all time— couldn’t hit his stride until he had his ten thousand hours in. Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”

Malcolm Gladwell

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“And what’s ten years? Well, it’s roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.”

Malcolm Gladwell

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“Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you’ll never really satisfy yourself that you’ve made it, and accept that that’s okay.”

Robert B. Reich

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“One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.”

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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“Autonomous people working toward mastery perform at very high levels. But those who do so in service of some greater objective can achieve even more. The most deeply motivated people—not to mention those who are most productive and satisfied—hitch their desires to a cause larger than themselves.”

Dan Pink

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“‘Being a professional,’ Julius Erving once said, ‘is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them.’”

Dan Pink

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“As an entrepreneur, I’m blessed with 100% autonomy over task, time, technique, and team. Here’s the thing: If I maintain that autonomy, I fail. I fail to ship. I fail to excel. I fail to focus. I inevitably end up either with no product or a product the market rejects. The art of the art is picking your limits. That’s the autonomy I most cherish. The freedom to pick my boundaries.”

Seth Godin

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“Nothing is more important to my success than controlling my schedule. I’m most creative from five to nine A.M. If I had a boss or co-workers, they would ruin my best hours one way or another.”

Scott Adams

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