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Mark Wickens
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She had but one life and could not afford to share it with Makepeace.
“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
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“this is the sort of person I’ve always admired: the person with a difficult goal who takes the necessary steps to achieve it.”
― The Last Policeman
― The Last Policeman
“Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“there’s something in me that knows of a life I’ve never lived, the kind of a life no one has ever lived, but should.” “You know it? Why don’t you live it?”
― Ideal
― Ideal
“The best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times—although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them. The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.
Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage. For each person there are thousands of opportunities, challenges to expand ourselves.”
― Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage. For each person there are thousands of opportunities, challenges to expand ourselves.”
― Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
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