No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying. - Tony Robbins

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When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done. - Stephen King

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Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

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Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. — Richard Bach

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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. — Colin Powell

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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

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Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. - Roberto Assagioli

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Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else- especially somebody who’s crazy about that child

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