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“winners see the gain; losers see the pain.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“Winners dont do different things,they do things differently”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“Under Adverse conditions - some people break down,some break records”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“Winner dont do different but they do differently”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“Oh, how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“winners don't do different things , they do things differently”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“Looking for the positive does not necessarily mean overlooking faults. being a positive thinker does not mean one has to agree or accept everything. It only means that a person is solution-focused.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“An uneducated thief may steal goods from the train but an educated one may steal the entire train. We need to compete for knowledge and wisdom, not for grades.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“Purpose: A lifetime goal is called a purpose. To identify your purpose, ask yourself “If my age was a hundred today and I looked back at my life, what is it that I want to say is my accomplishment?” The answer is your purpose.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you will be doomed if you don’t try.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“Motivation is like fire—unless you keep adding fuel to it, it dies. Your fuel is your belief in your inner values.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“The best teachers will not give you something to drink, they will make you thirsty. They will not give you answers but will put you on a path to seek answers.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“This one phrase, "It is my life, I will do what I want," has done more damage than good. People choose to ignore the spirit and derive the meaning that is convenient to them. Such people have tied this phrase to selfishness and I'm sure that was not the intent.
These people forget that we don't live in isolation. What you do affects me and what I do affects you. We are connected. We have to realize that we are sharing this planet and we must learn to behave responsibly.
There are two kinds of people in this world--takers and givers. Takers eat well and givers sleep well. Givers have high self-esteem, a positive attitude, and they serve society. By serving society, I do not mean a run-of-the-mill pseudo leader-turned- politician who serves himself by pretending to serve others.
As human beings, we all have the need to receive and take. But a healthy personality with high self-esteem is one that not only has its need to take but also to give.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“A person’s character is judged not only by the company they keep but also by the company they avoid.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“Winners don;t do different things, they do things differently.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“Ability will get you success; character will keep you successful.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“Winners don't do different things . . . they do things differently”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“A young man asked Socrates the secret to success. Socrates told the young man to meet him near the river the next morning. They met and Socrates asked the young man to walk with him toward the river. When the water got up to their necks, Socrates took the young man by surprise and pushed him under the water. The boy struggled to get out but Socrates kept him there. When the boy started turning blue, Socrates raised the boy’s head out of the water. The first thing the boy did was to take a deep breath of air. Socrates asked, “What did you want the most when you were under water?” The boy replied, “Air.” Socrates said, “That is the secret to success. When you want success as badly as you wanted air underwater, you will have it.” There is no other secret. This is called the burning desire.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“A CRASH COURSE FOR SUCCESS • Play to win and not to lose. • Learn from other people’s mistakes. • Associate with people of high moral character. • Give more than you get. • Don’t look for something for nothing. • Always think long term. • Evaluate your strengths and build on them. • Always keep the larger picture in mind when making a decision. • Never compromise your integrity.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“Our thoughts are causes. You sow a thought, you reap an action. You sow an action, you reap a habit. You sow a habit, you reap a character. You sow a character, you reap a destiny. It all starts with a thought.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“Let me share a famous life history with you. This was a man who failed in business at the age of twenty-one; was defeated in a legislative race at age twenty-two; failed again in business at age twenty-four; had his sweetheart die when he was age twennty-six; had a nervous breakdown at age twenty-seven; lost a congressional race at age thirty-four; lost a senatorial race at age forty-five; failed in an effort to become vice-president at age forty-seven; lost a senatorial race at age forty-nine; and was elected president of the United States at age fifty-two. This man was Abraham Lincoln.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“Purpose: A lifetime goal is called a purpose. To identify your purpose, ask yourself “If my age was a hundred today and I looked back at my life, what is it that I want to say is my accomplishment?” The answer is your purpose. Mission: A mission is an action that leads a person to a purpose through a philosophy.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“How is Life Full of Choices? When we eat too much, we make a choice to be overweight. When we drink too much, we make a choice to have a headache the next day. If we drink and drive, we choose to risk being killed or killing someone in an accident. When we ill-treat people, we choose to be ill-treated in return. When we don’t care about other people, we choose not to be cared for by them. When we light up a cigarette, we choose to invite cancer. Choices have consequences. The most important thing to understand is that we are all free to the point of making choices. but, after we make a choice, the choice controls the chooser. We have no more choices. What is success? Series of positive choices is called success and series of negative choices is called failure. We have an equal opportunity to be unequal. The choice is ours. Life can be compared to a pottery maker who shapes clay in any form he wants. Similarly we can mould our lives into any shape we want.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“The greatest gift that humans have is the ability to think. Of all the creatures in the world, humans are physically the most ill-equipped. A human cannot fly like a bird, outrun a leopard, swim like an alligator, nor climb trees like a monkey. A human doesn’t have the eyes of an eagle, nor the claws and teeth of a wild cat. Physically, humans are helpless and defenseless; a tiny insect can kill them. But nature is reasonable and kind. Nature’s greatest gift to humankind is the ability to think. Humans can create their own environment, whereas animals have to adapt to their environment.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“SUCCESS does not mean an absence of problems, it is overcoming problems. Success is not measured by how high we go up in life, but how many times we bounce back when we fall down.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“Everything that we enjoy is a result of someone's hard work. Some work is visible and other work goes unseen, but both are equally important. Some people stop working as soon as they find a job. Regardless of the unemployment statistics, it is hard to find good people to work. Many people don't understand the difference between idle time and leisure time. Idle time amounts to wasting or stealing time; leisure time is earned. Procrastinating amounts to not working.
Excellence is not luck; it is the result of a lot of hard work and practice. Hard work and practice make a person better at whatever he is doing.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“Remember, a person's character is not only judged by the company he or she keeps but also by the company he or she avoids.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you will be doomed if you don’t try. – Beverley Sills”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“Progressive’ means that success is a journey, not a destination. It’s an ongoing process. We never arrive.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“Realisation’ means it is an experience. Outside forces cannot make me feel successful. I have to feel it within myself. It is internal not external. That is why what often appears success externally may be total hollowness internally.”
― quote from You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“Do you realize that you will not only wreck your civilization, such as it is, and kill most of your people; but that you will also poison the fish in your rivers, the squirrels in your trees, the flocks of birds, the soil, the water? There are times when you seem, to us, like apes loose in a museum, carrying knives, slashing the canvases, breaking the statuary with hammers.”
― Walter Tevis, quote from The Man Who Fell to Earth
“Supongamos, no obstante, que se puede desarrollar un algoritmo bancario con un 99 por ciento de precisión. Supongamos que en el Reino Unido hay 500 terroristas. El algoritmo identificaría correctamente a 495 de ellos, el 99 por ciento. Pero en el Reino Unido hay aproximadamente 50 millones de adultos que no tienen nada que ver con el terrorismo, y el algoritmo también identificaría erróneamente al 1 por ciento de todos ellos, es decir, 500.000 personas. Al final de las cuentas, este maravilloso algoritmo con un 99 por ciento de precisión daría demasiados falsos positivos: medio millón de personas que se indignarían con razón cuando fueran detenidas por las autoridades por sospechosas de terrorismo.”
― Steven D. Levitt, quote from SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
“Ren...Did you know that Winston Churchill, the greatest orator of all time and one of the greatest leaders in the world, had a speech impediment? All of us botch our words from time to time. And honestly I'd much rather stammer than put my foot in my mouth, and I've done more than my fair share of that. You have no reason to be embarrassed or ashamed for a biological misfire you can't help. It's not an indictment on your intelligence, but it is on the the humanity and decency of anyone cruel enough to mock you for it.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, quote from Time Untime
“The dilemma I was faced with was one every parent faces sooner or later: you want to defend your child, of course; you stand up for your child, but you mustn't do it all too vehemently, and above all not too eloquently - you mustn't drive anyone into a corner. The educators, the teachers, will let you have your say, but afterwards they'll take revenge on your child. You may come up with better arguments - it's not too hard to come up with better arguments than the educators, the teachers - but in the end, your child to going to pay for it. Their frustration at being shown up is something they'll take out on the student.”
― Herman Koch, quote from The Dinner
“Dire che il popolo è sempre vittima, sempre innocente, è un'ipocrisia e una menzogna e un insulto alla dignità di ogni uomo, di ogni donna, di ogni persona. Un popolo è fatto di uomini, donne, persone, ciascuna di queste persone ha il dovere di scegliere, di decidere per se stessa; e non si cessa di scegliere, di decidere, perché non si è né generali né ricchi né potenti.”
― Oriana Fallaci, quote from A Man
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