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“For this reason, as a great exercise for building self-discipline and mental resilience, I strongly suggest exposing yourself to difficult tasks. Embrace problems in your life and look at dealing with difficulties as training yourself to see problems as hurdles instead of barriers.”
― 365 Days With Self-Discipline
― 365 Days With Self-Discipline
“The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly. Lu Yen (fl. 800 A.D.)”
― Wisdom of the Ages At Your Fingertips: 6,500 Quotes from over 1,000 of History's Greatest Minds
― Wisdom of the Ages At Your Fingertips: 6,500 Quotes from over 1,000 of History's Greatest Minds
“I don't count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they're the only ones that count.”
― The Science of High Performance: Develop Mental Toughness, Boost Willpower, Master New Skills, and Achieve Your Goals Faster
― The Science of High Performance: Develop Mental Toughness, Boost Willpower, Master New Skills, and Achieve Your Goals Faster
“Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.”
― The Science of High Performance: Develop Mental Toughness, Boost Willpower, Master New Skills, and Achieve Your Goals Faster
― The Science of High Performance: Develop Mental Toughness, Boost Willpower, Master New Skills, and Achieve Your Goals Faster
“Wisdom will not open her doors to those who are not willing to pay the price in self-sacrifice, in hard work. Her jewels are too precious to scatter before the idle, the ambitionless.”
― He Can Who Thinks He Can & Other Books on Success
― He Can Who Thinks He Can & Other Books on Success
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