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“the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life.”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“Many of the most accomplished people of our era were considered by experts to have no future. Jackson Pollock, Marcel Proust, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Lucille Ball, and Charles Darwin were all thought to have little potential for their chosen fields.”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“Think about your hero. Do you think of this person as someone with extraordinary abilities who achieved with little effort? Now go find out the truth. Find out the tremendous effort that went into their accomplishment—and admire them more.”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“Too many of us are slaves to our lifestyle. We build a business (or career) that we hate, to enable us to buy things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t even like. This is the paradox.”
― Jayson Gaignard, Mastermind Dinners: Build Lifelong Relationships by Connecting Experts, Influencers, and Linchpins

“Many of us labor under the delusion that we’re permanently stuck with all of the difficult parts of our personalities—that we are “hot-tempered,” or “shy,” or “sad”—and that these are fixed, immutable traits. We now know that many of the attributes we value most are, in fact, skills, which can be trained the same way you build your body in the gym.”
― Dan Harris, 10% Happier

“doing the perfect kettlebell swing alone is superior to 99 percent of the sophisticated strength and conditioning programs out there.”
― Pavel Tsatsouline, Enter the Kettlebell!: Strength Secret of the Soviet Supermen

“Story is the most powerful weapon on earth”
― Erik Saelens, The Story Wars: How brand stories beat advertising tales!

“stated life’s purpose. “I would like to die thinking that humanity has a bright future,” he said. “If we can solve sustainable energy and be well on our way to becoming a multiplanetary species with a self-sustaining civilization on another planet—to cope with a worst-case scenario happening and extinguishing human consciousness—then,” and here he paused for a moment, “I think that would be really good.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Inventing the Future

“The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.”
― Alice Schroeder, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.”
― Lewis Howes, The School of Greatness: A Real-World Guide to Living Bigger, Loving Deeper, and Leaving a Legacy

“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance. Have”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art