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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Robert Collier

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Robert Collier
Age: 64 †
Born: 1885
Born: April 19
Died: 1950
Died: January 1
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St. Louis
Missouri
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Life
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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
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First the stalk - then the roots. First the need - then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus -then the elements needed for its growth.
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The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.
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The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
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Supply always comes on the heels of demand.
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Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
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Achievement is the entirety of little deliberations, rehashed all the live long day.
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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
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Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis.
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Your belief that you can do the thing gives your thought forces their power.
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See things that you want as already yours. Know that they will come to you at need. Then let them come. Don't fret and worry about them. Don't think about your lack of them. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.
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Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don't merely dream- but create.
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It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.
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Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.
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The headline of an advertisement accounts for 60% of the pull of that ad. In the same way, the start of a letter makes or breaks the letter, because if the start does not interest your reader, he never gets down to the rest of your letter.
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You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods.
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