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“If you don't sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice”
― Anonymous

“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
― James Sherman

“A moment of patience in a moment of anger saves a thousand moments of regret.”
― Ali Ibn Abu Talib

“All great achievements require time.”
― Maya Angelou

“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
― Earl Nightingale

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.”
― Lao Tzu

“I never lose, I either win or learn”
― Nelson Mandela

“When you lose, don't lose the lesson”
― Dalai Lama

“Self esteem is seeing yourself as a flawed person, and still holding yourself in high regard.”
― Esther Perel

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713

“You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.”
― Andrew Murphy

“You need Power,
only when you want
to do something harmful
otherwise
Love is enough to get everything done.”
― Charlie Chaplin

“If it's out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too.”
― Ivan Nuru

“Choose your mate, choose your fate.”
― Anonymous

“A healthy man wants a thousand things, a sick man only wants one.”
― Confucius

“It takes a strong woman to stay by herself,
In a world where people will settle for anything,
Just to say they have something.”
― Alice Harmon

“We should be more thankful that we receive from life much more than we need and we do much less than we can.”
― Roberto Canessa, I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives

“We soon learned that failure was only the operating cost of success.”
― Roberto Canessa, I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives

“I don’t look at the mountains, I look at the next step, because there are a lot things that are uncertain in life and you don’t know, but if you don’t take the steps you will never know how far can you go.”
― Roberto Canessa

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
― Albert Einstein

“Parkinson’s Law: “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
― Olivia Fox Cabane, The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism

“Parkinson’s Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Work expands to fill the time available for its completion,” still known as Parkinson’s Law.”
― Bill Bryson, The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island

“Perfection is the enemy of progress.”
― Winston Churchill

“complexity is the enemy of execution.”
― Anthony Robbins, MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom

“Zeigarnik effect—that uncompleted tasks created a level of tension that keeps that task at the front of our minds until it is completed.”
― Jim Kwik, Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life

“The Zeigarnik effect is brought on by things we know we need to do but that we’ve failed to get out of our heads.”
― Jordan Raynor, Redeeming Your Time: 7 Biblical Principles for Being Purposeful, Present, and Wildly Productive

“So the Zeigarnik Effect was born: incomplete experiences occupy our minds far more than completed ones.”
― Adam Alter, Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

“Wake up in the morning with a specific goal to look forward to. Creative individuals don’t have to be dragged out of bed; they are eager to start the day. This is not because they are cheerful, enthusiastic types. Nor do they necessarily have something exciting to do. But they believe that there is something meaningful to accomplish each day, and they can’t wait to get started on it. Most of us don’t feel our actions are that meaningful. Yet everyone can discover at least one thing every day that is worth waking up for. It could be meeting a certain person, shopping for a special item, potting a plant, cleaning the office desk, writing a letter, trying on a new dress. It is easier if each night before falling asleep, you review the next day and choose a particular task that, compared to the rest of the day, should be relatively interesting and exciting. Then next morning, open your eyes and visualize the chosen event—play it out briefly in your mind, like an inner videotape, until you can hardly wait to get dressed and get going. It does not matter if at first the goals are trivial and not that interesting. The important thing is to take the easy first steps until you master the habit, and then slowly work up to more complex goals. Eventually most of the day should consist of tasks you look forward to, until you feel that getting up in the morning is a privilege, not a chore.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention