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• Marcus Aurelius

  All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  The only thing that isn’t worthless is to live this life out truthfully and rightly. And be patient with those who don’t.

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• Epictetus

  A boxer derives the greatest advantage from his sparring partner – and my accuser is my sparring partner. He trains me in patience, civility, and even temper.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

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• Seneca

  Excellence withers without an adversary.

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• Seneca

  Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favors you have received.

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• Scott Adams

  “humorously inappropriate”

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• Marcus Aurelius

  Blame and praise have no true effects.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

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• Maya Angelou

  I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

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• Epictetus

  A companion’s crudeness is bound to rub off on the one he is with, no matter how refined that person may be.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  Other people’s mistakes? Leave them to their makers.

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• In the end, we all just want someone who chooses us over everyone else, under any circumstances.

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• Cal Newport

  “demonstrating effort”

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• Jocko Willink

  The aim of every conversation is to improve the relationship.

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• Jimmy Carr

  The best dad in the world, is a mediocre mum.

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• John Burroughs

  A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

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• Scott Adams

  Sometimes you just need a friend who knows different things than you do.

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• Scott Adams

  Avoid friends who are full-time downers.

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• Simon Sinek

  Tell me about it.

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• Hanlon’s Razor

  Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

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• Disagree productively

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• Tim Stanley

  Britain is a nation united by the common belief that someone else is to blame for all our problems.

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• James Clear

  you do not have a personal obligation to correct people who are committed to being stupid

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• I’ve never been disliked by someone l’d want to trade places with

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• Harry Truman

  It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the credit.

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• Do you want to be helped, hugged or heard?

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• Positive self-talk compounds, through self-image then self-worth and then self-talk again.

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• Jack Kornfield

  If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  A man standing by a clear, sweet water spring and cursing it. Meanwhile, the freshwater keeps on bubbling up. He can shovel mud into it or dung, and the stream will carry it away, wash itself clean, remain unstained.

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• Jimmy Carr

  Everyone is jealous of what you got, no one is jealous of how you got it.

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• Don’t blame others.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions

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• Seneca

  No one becomes a laughingstock who laughs at himself

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• Marcus Aurelius

  It is quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it

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• two things rise to the top – the cream and the scum

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• Praise is more effective than criticism.

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• teach principles and let students come up with methods

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• George Eliot

  Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

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• Whats the real problem here? And what else? And what else?

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• Sigmund Freud

  The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.

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• Some people never understand what you bring to the table until they watch you in action at another table.

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• Voltaire

  a long dispute means that both parties are wrong

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• Jordan B Peterson

  Attention is love. There is no difference.

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• “tortured genius”

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• Paulo Coelho

  the world is changed by your example, not by your opinion

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• Epictetus

  If you find yourself acting to impress others or avoiding action out of fear of what they might think, you have left the path.

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• Epictetus

  Follow your principles as though they were laws. Do not worry if others criticize or laugh at you, for their opinions are not your concern.

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• Hecato of Rhodes

  What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.

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• Epictetus

  Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

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• Scott Adams

  The transformative power of praise versus the corrosive impact of criticism.

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• Epictetus

  The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  The best way of avenging yourself is by not becoming like the one who wronged you.

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• Once you learn to not react out of emotion you have won.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  when you are offended at any man’s fault, forthwith turn to yourself and reflect in what like manner you do err yourself

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• There are awesome people everywhere.

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• Ed Latimore

  If you aren’t willing to look like a foolish beginner, you’ll never become a graceful master.

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• Charles Derber

  “conversational narcissism”

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• Stay away from people who bring out the person you’re not trying to be anymore.

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• Charles Lamb

  The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

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• Colin Powell

  Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

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• Build as diverse a team as possible.

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• Ancient Proverb

  You can’t fight smoke with a sword.

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• Charles Bukowski

  and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want… what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?

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• Rich Somers

  competition happens at the bottom

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• Thomas Paine

  He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

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• Avoid drama.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  what brings no benefit to the hive brings none to the bee

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• Christine Caine

  Sometimes, when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried – but actually, you’ve been planted.

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• Jason Gardner

  wherever you go, run for mayor

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• Jocko Willink

  “leadership capital”

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• Marcus Buckingham

  The one thing you need to know about happy marriage; find the most generous explanation for each other’s behavior and believe it

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• Scott D Clary

  Your ability to disagree without being disagreeable is leadership.

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• Ian McEwan

  an old friend of mine, a journalist, once said that paradise on earth was to work all day alone in anticipation of an evening in interesting company

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• Ghandi

  be the change you want in the world

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• Shunmyō Masuno

  Be the reason someone smiles today.

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• Socrates

  strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people

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• Tim Ferriss

  praise by name, criticise by category

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• USAF Weapons Instructors

  humble, approachable, credible >>> build, teach, lead

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• Will Smith

  how do I make this moment more magical?

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• Jocko Willink

  default mode; use other peoples ideas.

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• Jocko Willink

  you’ve got to have the relationship to influence it

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• Jocko Willink

  brief me

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• Marcus Aurelius

  it never ceases to amaze me – we all love ourselves more than other people but care more about their opinions than our own

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• Robert Cialdini

  ask for advice, not opinion

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• Pubilius Syrus

  audacity augments courage, hesitation fear

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• Robert J Hanlon

  never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

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• how can we solve this?

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• what do you do that’s different?

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• Seth Godin

  attitudes are skills

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• Seth Godin

  reliability is a superpower

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• Colebrooke

  overcome mediocrity

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• Seth Godin

  earn trust through action

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• Seth Godin

  everyone who disagrees with you believes they are correct

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• Seth Godin

  helping someone get what they want is easier than changing what they want

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• Adam Grant

  disagree productively

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• are you doing anything exciting these days?

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• only the person who isn’t rowing can rock the boat

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• Ralph Charell

  be the chess player, not the chess piece

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• African Proverb

  a cat that dreams of becoming a lion must lose its appetite for rats.

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