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  1. Robert Greene _ Mastery

    It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.
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  2. Neil Gaiman

    Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author.
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  3. Gretchen Rubin _ Outer Order, Inner Calm

    It's easier to keep up than to catch up...
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  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ Notes from Underground, White

    May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction {there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it} because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he is constructing? Who knows, perhaps he only loves that edifice from a distance, and is by no means in love with it at close quarters; perhaps he only loves building it and does not want to live in it, but will leave it, when completed...
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  5. L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of the Island

    The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.
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  6. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden

    If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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  7. Iain Pears _ The Dream of Scipio

    {T}he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our own sake, because through that, and through contemplation in equal measure, our soul is purified and brought closer to the divine. ... Thought and deed conjoined are crucial. ... The attempt must be made; the outcome is irrelevant. Right action is a pale material reflection of the divine, but reflection it is, nonetheless. Define your goal and exert reason to accomplish it by virtuous action; successs or failure is secondary.
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  8. Richard Wright _ Bigger Thomas

    I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children". When the review of that book began to appear, I realized that I had made an awful naive mistake. I found that I had written a book which even bankers' daughters could read and weep over and feel good about. I swore to myself that if I ever wrote another book, no one would weep over it; that it would be so hard and deep that they would have to face it without the consolation of tears."
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  9. R.A. Salvatore _ Streams of Silver

    There is one other error in the Gondsman's line of resoning, I believe, on ap urely emotional level. If machines replace achievement, then to what will people aspire? And who are we, truly, without such goals? Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunity should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual.
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  10. Hermann Hesse _ Siddhartha

    Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, ifhe is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.
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  11. Paulo Coelho _ The Devil and Miss Prym

    Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.
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  12. Paulo Coelho _ The Devil and Miss Prym

    Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.
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