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"I am still learning"

No matter how much we know or learn, there is still more.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing changes if nothing changes

A leader's success comes from bringing others across the finish line with them.

"He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is only taking a walk." If you can't influence others, they won't follow you. And if they won't follow you, you're not a leader. That's the Law of Influence. No matter what anybody else tells you, remember that leadership is influence — nothing more, nothing less.

To reach the highest level of effectiveness, you have to raise the lid — one way or another.

Living well does not mean avoiding suffering; it means suffering for the right reasons. Becaude if we're going to be forced to suffer by simply ecisting, we might as well learn how to suffer well.

People are liars, all of us. We lie constantly and habitually. We lie about important things and trifling things. And we usually don't lie out of malice — rather, we lie to others because we're in such a habit of lying to ourselves.

Self-serving bias. You assume that what feels right is right. You make snap judgements about people, places, groups, and ideas, many of which are unfair or even a little bit bigoted.

Emotion inspires action, and action inspires emotions.

To generate hope in our lives, we must first feel as though we have control over our lives. We must feel as though we're following through on what we know is good and right; that we're chasing after "something better."

The opposite of happiness is not anger or sadness. The opposite of happiness is hopelessness, an endless gray horizon of resignation and indifference.

"Sometimes you lie to deceive people. Sometimes you lie because you need the lie to become the truth."

"You think the world is one way, then you find out it's much bigger and stranger than you ever imagined. If you can't expand your thinking, you're not going to do well in the afterlife."

"You can't hold on to hate forever. It won't do a thing to the person you hate, but it'll poison you, sure enough."

The most unexpected thing can be the key to victory.

But the most important thing is use whatever you've got on hand — your team, your wits, the enemy's own magical stuff.

You have lines you can't cross. That's not wekaness. It's one of your strengths.

"The older you are, the harder it is to accept that the world might not be the way you thought it was".