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You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

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Denis Waitley
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: January 1
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Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.
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Face up to those areas that are weak in your life and seek to make them strong.
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Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.
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Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.
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Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.
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Life is a do-it-for-others, do-it-yourself project.
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The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.
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What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them
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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
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Learn how to grow out of yourself and into the world of others: Plant a shade tree under which you know you will never sit. Set some goals that may benefit your children or an orphanage or the employees of your company or future generations or your own city, fifty years from now.
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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
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Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.
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SMILE! In every language, in every culture - it is the light in your window that tells people there's a caring, sharing individual inside and it's the universal code for I'm O. K. - You're O. K., too!
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Your attitude is a choice you make.
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With knowledge now the key raw material for creating all economic wealth, the new power struggles will reach deep into our minds and our personal lives. That's why we believe the only empire that will survive in the 21st century will be the empire you build within your own mind.
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Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!
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Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the most important thing in measuring success.
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Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals.
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Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness.
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