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“A bad goal makes you say, “I want to do that some day.” A great goal makes you take action immediately.”
― Derek Sivers, Hell Yeah or No: What's Worth Doing

“Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.”
― Anaïs Nin

“No. I don’t like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody’s confidence. If one’s actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others, only their rational perception. The person who craves a moral blank check of that kind, has dishonest intentions, whether he admits it to himself or not.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“It’s never just business. It never will be. If it ever does become just business, that will mean that business is very bad.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“I hated war, but I loved the warrior spirit. I hated the sword, but loved the samurai.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
― Phil Knight (original quote by George S Patton), Shoe Dog

“The principle of democracy is freedom, the principle of war is discipline; each requires the absence of the other.”
― Will Durant, Caesar and Christ

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
― William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
― Jean Paul Sartre