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#1

“What separates good thinkers from great thinkers is:

1) The number of mental models at their disposal;
2) The accuracy of those models; and
3) How quickly they update them when they're wrong.”
― Shane Parrish

tags: mental-models, thinking

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#2

“I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.”
― Louis C.K.

tags: advice, bored, boredom, inspirational, reprimand, young

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#3

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: love

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#4

“Farsi Couplet:
Agar firdaus bar roo-e zameen ast,
Hameen ast-o hameen ast-o hameen ast.

English Translation:
If there is a paradise on earth,
It is this, it is this, it is this”
― Amir Khusrau, The Writings of Amir Khusrau: 700 Years After the Prophet: A 13th-14th Century Legend of Indian-Sub-Continent

tags: amirkhusro, farsi, hindi-poem, indian-authors, mysticism, mysticism-sufi-wisdom, sufism

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#5

“So, ask yourself: If what you're working on succeeds beyond your wildest dreams, would you have significantly helped other people? If not, then keep searching for something else to work on. Otherwise you're not living up to your full potential.”
― Andrew Ng

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#6

“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident

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#7

“You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

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#8

“A wise old owl sat on an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why can’t we be like that old bird?”
― Max Gunther, How to Get Lucky (Harriman Classics): 13 techniques for discovering and taking advantage of life’s good breaks

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#9

“I am so tired of waiting.
Aren’t you,
for the world to become good
and beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
and cut the world in two—
and see what worms are eating
at the rind.”
― Langston Hughes, Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings

tags: beauty, change, evil, examination, goodness, kindness, poem, poetry

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#10

“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”
― Newt Gingrich

tags: difficulty, perseverance, work

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#11

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational

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#12

“You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

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#13

“Get busy watering your own grass so as not to notice whether it's greener elsewhere.”
― Karon Waddell

tags: grass-is-greener, quotes, quotes-to-live-by

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#14

“action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.”
― David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

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#15

“Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.”
― Napoleon Hill

tags: inspirational, motivational, positive, selfdiscipline

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#16

“Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission”
― Zig Ziglar

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#17

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.”
― Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

tags: running

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#18

“The mind is beautiful because of the paradox. It uses itself to understand itself.”
― Adam Elenbaas

tags: mind

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#19

“Good habits are hard to form and easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to form and hard to live with. Pay attention. Be aware . If we don't consciously form good ones, we will unconsciously form bad ones.”
― Mark Matteson, Freedom from Fear: The Story of One Man's Discovery of Simple Truths That Lead to Wealth, Joy and Peace of Mind

tags: advice, attention, awareness, be-aware, habits, inspirational, of-good-habits-and-bad-habits

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#20

“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”
― Jim Rohn

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#21

“If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a LOT of time dealing with a life you don't want.”
― Kevin Ngo, Let's Do This! 100 Powerful Messages to Help You Take Action

tags: inspirational, inspirational-quotes, life, motivation, motivational, reality, time

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#22

“You have to be like a lion and a fox. The fox is smart enough to recognize traps, and the lion is strong enough to scare away the wolves. Be like a lion and a fox, and no one will ever beat you”
― Carlo Gambino

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#23

“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
― Steve Wozniak

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#24

“Some of y'all are not where you want to be in life, yet you party every weekend. What is it that you’re celebrating?”
― Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.

tags: hardwork, hustle

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#25

“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: inspirational

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#26

“Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realizing you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck.”
― Dennis Lehane

tags: compassion, empathy, fortune, luck, power, sympathy

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#27

“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.”
― Henry Ford

tags: time-management

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#28

“Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.”
― Jacob Braude

tags: calm-under-pressure, composure, humor

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#29

“Worrying about the future is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life will always be things that never crossed your worried mind.”
― Baz Luhrmann

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#30

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

tags: ethic, habits, morality, virtue

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