You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.

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We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.

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You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it. - Nicky Gumbel

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I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's direction or live so that you never disappoint or hurt anybody, then your life is a continual assessment of whether or not you please other people.

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People argue themselves out of their pleasures. ― Jude Morgan

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The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.

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Haters only hate things they can't have and the people they can't be. It's just a little thing called jealousy.

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You can always create your own experience of life in a beautiful and enjoyable way if you keep your love turned on within you- regardless of what other people say or do.

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ― Ernest Hemingway

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

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