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“It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.”
― Anthony Robbins

“Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.

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― Siddhārtha Gautama, The Dhammapada

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
― Vanessa Van Edwards, Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People

“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.”
― Montesquieu

“They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am nevertheless continually employed. I spend my life in examining things: I write down in the evening whatever I have remarked, what I have seen, and what I have heard in the day: every thing engages my attention, and every thing excites my wonder: I am like an infant, whose organs, as yet tender, are strongly affected by the slightest objects.”
― Montesquieu, Persian Letters

“An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.”
― Montesquieu

“I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.”
― Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu

“If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman...because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.”
― Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu

“We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.”
― Charles Louis de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu

“A truly virtuous man would come to the aid of the most distant stranger as quickly as to his own friend.
If men were perfectly virtuous, they wouldn’t have friends.”
― Montesquieu

“If only we wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is difficult, since we think them happier than they are.”
― Charles de Montesquieu

“The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“Everything that happens to you is a form of instruction if you pay attention.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“To sum up: it's time to rewrite the maxim that practice makes perfect. The truth is, practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.”
― Daniel Coyle, The Talent Code: Unlocking the Secret of Skill in Sports, Art, Music, Math, and Just About Everything Else

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning