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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
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    Rick Warren
    “We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.”
    ― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
    tags: change, growth, inspirational, learning-from-mistakes, past
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: contentment, goals, happiness, life, satisfaction
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    Stephen King
    “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: inspirational, productivity, writing
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    Albert Einstein
    “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: education, knowledge-wisdom, learning, school, science, wisdom
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    John Wooden
    “Don't mistake activity with achievement.”
    ― John Wooden
    tags: achievement, acquirement, act, action, activity, attainment, completion, conclusion, deed, doing, energy, enterprise, exertion, feat, fulfullment, labor, occurence, perfection, performance, production, service, success, undertaking, venture, work
    628 likes

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    Bruce Lee
    “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: productivity
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
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    Will Smith
    “Fear is not real. It is a product of thoughts you create. Do not misunderstand me. Danger is very real. But fear is a choice.”
    ― Will Smith
    tags: after-earth
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    Karl Marx
    “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

    Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, that each time ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.”
    ― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
    tags: class-struggles, communism, history, oppression
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: busy-learning, competence, job-doing, productivity
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing what's gone into it.”
    ― George R.R. Martin
    tags: writing
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    John Wooden
    “Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.”
    ― John Wooden
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    Erma Bombeck
    “Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.”
    ― Erma Bombeck
    tags: chores, housekeeping, humor
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    Megan McCafferty
    “I just don't see the point in beating myself up. I think it's more productive to concentrate on being a better person right now than punishing myself for who I was in the past.”
    ― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings
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    David Allen
    “If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”
    ― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
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    Susane Colasanti
    “We’re products of our choices.”
    ― Susane Colasanti, Keep Holding On
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    Lois Lowry
    “Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.”
    ― Lois Lowry
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    Ayn Rand
    “Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.”
    ― Ayn Rand
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    David Allen
    “Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”
    ― David Allen
    tags: productivity
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    Corita Kent
    “Consider everything an experiment.”
    ― Corita Kent
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    Holly Mosier
    “Learn to say no to demands, requests, invitations, and activities that leave you with no time for yourself. Until I learned to say no, and mean it, I was always overloaded by stress. You may feel guilty and selfish at first for guarding your down- time, but you’ll soon find that you are a much nicer, more present, more productive person in each instance you do choose to say yes.”
    ― Holly Mosier
    tags: mind-body-spirit, mindfulness, opt-out, peace-of-mind, present-moment, purpose, pursuit-of-happiness, stress-management
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    Pete Seeger
    “If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.”
    ― Pete Seeger
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
    tags: choices, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
    tags: listening
    1632 likes



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