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“Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.”
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Colin Powell
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“If you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about you will be negative.”
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Scott Boras - founder, owner and president of the Boras Corporation, sports agency
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“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
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Epictetus - Greek Stoic philosopher. Born a slave. All external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. Individuals, however, are responsible for their own actions, which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline. Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
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“Living well is the best revenge.”
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George Herbert
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“Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers”
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Tim Ferris
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“Our crude civilization engenders a multitude of wants… Our forefathers forged chains of duty and habit, which bind us notwithstanding our boasted freedom, and we ourselves in desperation, add link to link, groaning and making medicinal laws for relief.”
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– John Muir, Kindred and Related Spirits
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“Chain of possessions wherewith men bind themselves, and beneath which they sink”
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Hindu scriptures
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“I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.”
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The prelate in Willa Cather’s "Death Comes for the Archbishop"
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