thought provoking

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- Source Unknown

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.
-- Al Neuharth


There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
-- Charles F. Kettering


Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
-- William Shakespeare

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
-- Booth Tarkington


To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render
it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber


Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain
constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.
-- Herb Brody

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Never take a decision when you are angry .. never make promises when you are happy.


Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett


It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default. ~ J. K. Rowling,

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.

Marilyn Ferguson

What matters most is how we respond to what we experience in life

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Our behaviour is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values. We have the the initiative and the responsibility to make things happen.

Look at the word responsibility- " response-ability" the ability to choose your response. Proactive people do not blame circumstances,conditions,or conditioning for their behaviour. Their behaviour is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feelings.

Stephen Covey

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No one can hurt you without your consent

Eleanor Roosevelt

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them. It is our willing permission, our consent to what happens to us, that hurts us far more than what happens to us in the first place

Gandhi

I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday

[faithful]

There's always a little truth behind every "just kidding"... A little knowledge behind every "I don't know"... A little emotion behind every "I don't care"... And a little pain behind every "it's okay".