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This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

By Peter F. Drucker

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#entrepreneur, #entrepreneurship

Think of all the stories you’ve heard, Bast. You have a young boy, the hero. His parents are killed he sets out for vengeance. What next?” Bast hesitated, his expression puzzled. Chronicler answered the question instead. “He finds help. A clever talking squirrel. An old drunken swordsman. A mad hermit in the woods. That sort of thing.” Kvothe nodded. “Exactly! He finds the mad hermit in the woods, proves himself worthy, and learns the names of all things, just like Taborlin the Great. Then with these powerful magics at his beck and call, what does he do?” Chronicler shrugged. “He finds the villains and kills them.” “Of course,” Kvothe said grandly. “Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

By Patrick Rothfuss

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#heroes, #mentors, #stories

As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.

By Jay Abraham

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#opportunity, #out-of-the-box

Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.

By Stephen King

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#bad-writing, #fiction, #good-writing, #writing

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

By Mark Twain

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God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

By Mark Twain

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#americans, #geography, #war

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

By Mark Twain

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#funeral, #funny, #humor

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

By Herman Melville

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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.

By Herman Melville

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#adventure, #laughter

If I still need someone to calm my anger down, then I surely need a scapegoat who enrages me.

By Toba Beta

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#anger, #angry, #point-finger, #scapegoat, #self-control

Eblis said, “No man who thinks ill, will hear the truth despite a hundred signs. When one who fantasises is presented with reason his fantasies increase. When one talks to such a person, their words become the very cause of that person’s fantasy. The crusader’s sword is a tool for a thief. So the response to him is silence and peace; to talk with an idiot is insanity. —Mathnawi-ye ma’nawi II 2714–17

By Rumi

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#confirmation-bias, #delusion, #eblis, #insanity, #malice, #sufism

I think it’s outrageous if a historian has a ‘leading thought’ because it means they will select their material according to their thesis

By Antony Beevor

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#confirmation-bias, #historiography, #history, #thesis

People are always clinging to what they want to hear, discarding the evidence that doesn’t fit with their beliefs, giving greater weight to evidence that does.

By Paula Stokes

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#confirmation-bias, #preconceived-notions

Did you ever read my words, or did you merely finger through them for quotations which you thought might valuably support an already conceived idea concerning some old and distorted connection between us?

By Audre Lorde

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#confirmation-bias, #quotations

The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. The truth is far more frightening – Nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.

By Alan Moore

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#confirmation-bias, #conspiracy, #conspiracy-theories, #young-men

Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.

By Jim Rohn

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#hard-work, #motivational

There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief.

By Napoleon Hill

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#motivational-quotes

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

By J.R.R. Tolkien

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#fantasy, #literature, #philosophy

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

By Frank Zappa

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#music, #philosophy, #progress

Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.

By Edmund Burke

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#doomed, #history, #learning, #school

We learn from failure, not from success!

By Bram Stoker

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#doubt, #experience, #learning, #mistakes, #records, #wisdom

A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.

By Bob Proctor

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#personal-development, #personal-growth, #personal-improvement, #self-development, #self-growth, #self-help, #self-improvement

If you do not get the chills when you set your goal you’re not setting big enough goals.

By Bob Proctor

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#personal-development, #personal-growth, #self-development, #self-help

I treat winning and losing exactly the same. I see them both as necessary steps to get us where we are going. Big failures big lessons little failures little lessons.

By Bob Proctor

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#failures, #lessons, #motivation, #personal-development, #personal-growth

Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

By Dwight D. Eisenhower

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#motive, #questioning, #wisdom

The best way to avoid becoming a scapegoat is to find one.

By Warren Eyster

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#blame, #blame-game, #scapegoat, #scapegoating, #scapegoats, #unpleasant-truth

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

By Dwight D. Eisenhower

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#blame, #hunting, #scapegoating

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.

By Dwight D. Eisenhower

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#freedom, #security

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

By Dwight D. Eisenhower

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#conservatism, #conservatives, #democrats, #extremism, #liberalism, #liberals, #politics, #republicans

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

By Dwight D. Eisenhower

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#planning, #plans, #strategy, #war

I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.

By Maya Angelou

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#family-relationships, #parents-and-children

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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#adults, #children, #philosophy

Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.

By Robert A. Heinlein

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#challenges, #children, #luxury

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via” – “There is no easy way from the earth to the stars

By Seneca

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#latin, #philosophy, #stars

All cruelty springs from weakness.

By Seneca

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#behavior, #character, #cruelty, #weakness

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.

By Nicholas Klein

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#conflict, #fighting, #inspirational, #misattributed-to-gandhi, #trial

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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#entrepreneurship, #inspirational, #leadership

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

By Graham Greene

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#escape, #life, #therapy, #writing

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

By Napoleon Hill

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#ideas-generation, #plans

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

By Peter Drucker

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#ideas-generation, #innovation, #new, #old, #project, #work

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