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“The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.”
― Napoleon Hill

“Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
― Alan Paton

“What if? A phrase that has given birth to more accomplishments than any other; yet it is also the great stumbling block of humanity. What if? Never has a phrase stopped more dreams in their infancy.”
― David Simpson, Post-Human Omnibus

“the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.”
― Timothy Keller, The Freedom of Self Forgetfulness

“All is calm, all is bright.”
― Joseph Mohr

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

“You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
― Ira Glass

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Deep work is necessary to wring every last drop of value out of your current intellectual capacity.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Efforts to deepen your focus will struggle if you don’t simultaneously wean your mind from a dependence on distraction.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“simply wait and be bored has become a novel experience in modern life, but from the perspective of concentration training, it’s incredibly valuable.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
― Jim Rohn

“Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
― Jim Rohn

“All our merely natural activities will be accepted, if they are offered to God, even the humblest, and all of them, even the noblest, will be sinful if they are not.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

“The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavourable. Favourable conditions never come.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

“Instead of a blank canvas, school hands kids a coloring book and tells them to stay within the lines.4 What”
― Tim Urban, The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why

“Insecurity can be solved the hard way or the easy way—and by giving people the easy option, dogmatic tribes remove the pressure to do the hard work of evolving into a more independent person with a more internally-defined identity.”
― Tim Urban, The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why

“The best friend of a blind Us is a nemesis Us—Them. Nothing unites Us like a collectively hated anti-Us, and the blind tribe is usually defined almost as much by hating the dogma of Them as it is by abiding by the dogma of Us. Whatever”
― Tim Urban, The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why

“The three elements that form the triangle of well-being work together to build, drive, create, and regulate our functioning and performance. What are the three? They are our brain/body (the physical), our relational connections, and our minds, which regulate the energy and information needed to live and perform. Siegel”
― Henry Cloud, The Power of the Other: The startling effect other people have on you, from the boardroom to the bedroom and beyond-and what to do about it

“So what is scarce and rare? Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“Research shows that while goal visualization is important, after a certain point our mind begins to confuse it with actual progress. The same goes for verbalization. Even”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“Think about it: a voice of a generation doesn’t call itself that. In fact, when you think about it, you realize just how little these voices seem to talk”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“Let the others slap each other on the back while you’re back in the lab or the gym or pounding the pavement. Plug that hole—that one, right in the middle of your face—that can drain you of your vital life force. Watch what happens. Watch how much better you get.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“The pretense of knowledge is our most dangerous vice, because it prevents us from getting any better. Studious self-assessment is the antidote.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“An amateur is defensive. The professional finds learning (and even, occasionally, being shown up) to be enjoyable; they like being challenged and humbled, and engage in education as an ongoing and endless process.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“When you stop relying on others or blaming others or waiting on others to go kill something and bring it back for you to eat, you realize you have to go hunt and kill for yourself. You don’t complain about what you lack or let setbacks get in the way of finding a way to make your dreams happen. You just go do it.”
― T.D. Jakes, Soar!: Build Your Vision from the Ground Up

“This is why we can’t let externals determine whether something was worth it or not. It’s on us.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“the more I learned, the more I came to realize that speaking in other tongues was not only a spiritual law uncovered; it was also a spiritual foundation upon which everything else regarding spiritual gifts and their operation rested.”
― Dave Roberson, The Walk of the Spirit - The Walk of Power: The Vital Role of Praying in Tongues

“The Holy Spirit is a Person just as each of us is a person. When we were born again, we received Him in the creative process that caused us to become new creations. But we didn’t receive Him in His fullness until we were baptized in the Holy Ghost. Now He lives inside us, partnering with us in prayer, empowering our lives, and bringing revelation of the Word as we walk in obedience to God.”
― Dave Roberson, The Walk of the Spirit - The Walk of Power: The Vital Role of Praying in Tongues