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All you have to do is hold your goal before you and everything else will take care of itself.

Earl Nightingale

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Earl Nightingale
Age: 68 †
Born: 1921
Born: March 12
Died: 1989
Died: March 25
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Motivational Speaker
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California
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Goal
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One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.
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Instead of competing, all we have to do is create.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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The strangest secret in the world is that you become what you think about.
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We become what we think about.
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If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.
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You become what you continually think about.
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Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
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Everything that's really worthwhile in life came to us free - our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country.
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Excellence always sells.
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We tend to live up to our expectations.
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Success is not the result of making money earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service.
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Don't take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you - be nice to them. Don't sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.
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The greatest thing on earth is a good idea!
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That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence.
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