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“It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking, than think your way into a new way of acting.”
― The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems
― The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems
“Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the fear which comes from the feeling of helplessness.”
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“Being a critic is easy.
But if the critic tries to run the operation, he soon understands that nothing is as easy as his criticisms.
Criticism without a solution is merely an inflation of the critic's ego.”
― The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World
But if the critic tries to run the operation, he soon understands that nothing is as easy as his criticisms.
Criticism without a solution is merely an inflation of the critic's ego.”
― The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World
“… when you blame any outside force for any of your experience of life, you are literally giving away all your power and thus creating pain, paralysis and depression.”
― Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
― Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
― Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
― Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
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