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Charlie Munger: Fast spurts

“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts … In the end, most people get what they deserve.” —Charlie Munger.

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Jim Murphy: Circumstances and thoughts

“One of the biggest mistakes we make in our stories is confusing our circumstances with our thoughts about those circumstances.” —Jim Murphy.

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Sir Garfield Sobers: Coach

“A coach should be a person who is able to help a player mentally.” —Garfield Sobers.

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Milton Friedman: Understand the arguments

“You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.” —Milton Friedman.

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Sheri S Tepper: Ignorance

“Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one’s own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.” —Sheri S. Tepper.

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Arthur Miller: You're a salesman

“The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is, you’re a salesman, and you don’t know that.” —ARTHUR MILLER, Death of a Salesman (1949).

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Richard Bach: Losing and learning

“That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing in a curious way is winning.”— Richard Bach.

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Pema Chodrom: Experiment

“Live your life as an experiment.”  —Pema Chodron.

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Kevin Spacey: Pay for it

“Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price, and they’ll more likely pay for it rather than steal it.”— Kevin Spacey.

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Sam Neill: You are unique

“You are unique. There is only one you. And that is you there, right here, for better or worse. Except that there is no better, and there is no worse. It’s just you.” —Sam Neill.

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Sam Neill: Moustache

“No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily — you can write that down.” —Sam Neill.

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Sam Neill: People turn into fools

“People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.” —Sam Neill.

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Eileen Gu: Power of sport

“As far as trusting yourself… the power of sport is unparalleled because it is evidence over affirmation. You don’t tell yourself, ‘Oh, I can handle the pressure. Oh, I’m so great.’ You do it time and time again.Sports are really honest because you can’t lie to yourself. You know when you stayed late, and other people weren’t there. You know when you showed up early and other people weren’t…

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Jim Rohn: Success

“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.” —Jim Rohn.

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Leo Rosten: Purpose of life

“The purpose of life is not to be happy at all. It is to be useful, to be honorable. It is to be compassionate. It is to matter, to have it make some difference that you lived.” —Leo Rosten.

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Marcel Proust: Every morning

“The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.” —Marcel Proust.

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Chuang Tzu: Chaos

“The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity. …Fuss, the god of the Southern Ocean, and Fret, the god of the Northern Ocean, happened once to meet in the realm of Chaos, the god of the center. Chaos treated them very handsomely and they discussed together what they could do to…