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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Courage is grace under pressure.”
    ― ernest hemingway
    tags: courage
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    Noam Chomsky
    “All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: apathy, complacency, consumerism, control, learned-helplessness, resignation, the-powers-that-be
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    Dale Carnegie
    “When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.”
    ― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry
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    “Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.”
    ― Peyton Manning
    tags: football, funny, peyton-manning
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    Andrei Tarkovsky
    “Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”
    ― Andrei Tarkovsky
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    Maya Angelou
    “To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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    “Love is louder then the pressure to be perfect.”
    ― Demi Lovato
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    Tim Fargo
    “Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it.”
    ― Tim Fargo
    tags: adversity, adversity-inspirational, adversity-quotes, aptitude, attain, attainable, attainment, capacity, competency, difficulty, enemies, enemy, friend, friendship, friendship-true-and-loyal, hard-times, hard-work, hardship, loyal, loyalty, perseverance, perseverance-quotes, persevere, potential, potential-for-greatness, pressure, strength, strength-and-courage, strength-of-character, talent, talented
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: assertiveness, authenticity, being-yourself, brainwashed, confidence, courage, differing-perspectives, expressing-yourself, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-speech, independence, individualism, peer-pressure, personalities, perspectives, reality, self-esteem, self-love, self-respect, self-worth, standing-out, stayingpositiveu-com, unique
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    Robert McKee
    “True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character's essential nature.”
    ― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
    tags: character, choices, nature, pressure, revelation
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    Nikola Tesla
    “From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement. The pressure of occupation and the incessant stream of impressions pouring into our consciousness through all the gateways of knowledge make modern existence hazardous in many ways. Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The premature death of millions is primarily traceable to this cause. Even among those who exercise care, it is a common mistake to avoid imaginary, and ignore the real dangers. And what is true of an individual also applies, more or less, to a people as a whole.”
    ― Nikolai Tesla
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    V.S. Naipaul
    “Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.”
    ― V.S. Naipaul
    tags: expectations, free-will, freedom, lack-of-vision, limitations, peer-pressure
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: assumptions, bias, brainwashed, coheresed, critics, guessing, judging, life-experience, life-experiences, limited-knowledge, limited-perspective, not-enough-information, not-knowing, opinions, pressured, upbringing, view
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
    tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness
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    Confucius
    “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
    ― Confucious
    tags: wisdom
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    Steve Maraboli
    “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
    tags: forgiveness, inspirational, letting-go, life, motivational, moving-forward, truth
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    Charles Dickens
    “A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
    tags: communication, psychology
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    If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out
    “If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
    tags: accountability, friends, inspirational, life, motivational, purpose, responsibility, success
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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: dreams, fearless, heart, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, mind, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: achievement, believe-in-yourself, brave, courage, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, talent
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    Zig Ziglar
    “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
    ― Zig Ziglar
    tags: attention, direction, focus, inspirational, motivational
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    Confucius
    “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
    ― Confucius, Confucius: The Analects
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke
    tags: motivational
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: motivational, work
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    Wayne W. Dyer
    “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
    ― Wayne W. Dyer
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    Napoleon Hill
    “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
    ― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice
    tags: inspirational, motivational, success
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    Helen Keller
    “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
    ― Helen Keller
    tags: motivational
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    William James
    “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”
    ― William James
    tags: action, happiness, motivational, work
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational, motivational, women
    1184 likes



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