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Rank	Author	Quote	Score
1	Bruce Lee	As you think, so shall you become	90
2	Aristotle	First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end	88
3	Aristotle	The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching	88
4	Barack Obama	Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere	88
5	Bruce Lee	Knowledge will give you power, but character respect	88
6	Bruce Lee	Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do	87
7	Bruce Lee	The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions	87
8	Bruce Lee	Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make	87
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9	Ingvar Kamprad	We want to be an army of humble, strong-willed enthusiasts who value a simple, positive lifestyle, where things get done, if not always perfectly, then as near to perfection as makes no difference. You can always improve things at a later stage, as long as that last five per cent or so isn't too expensive. It's a question of taking responsibility, making decisions and having the courage to act	87
10	Ingvar Kamprad	The aim of our effort to build up financial resources is to reach a good result in the long term. You know what it takes to do that: we must offer the lowest prices, and we must combine them with good quality. If we charge too much, we will not be able to offer the lowest prices. If we charge too little, we will not be able to build up resources. A wonderful problem! It forces us to develop products more economically, to purchase more efficiently and to be constantly stubborn in cost savings of all kinds. That is our secret. That is the foundation of our success	87
11	Aristotle	The secret to humor is surprise	86
12	Aristotle	The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live	86
13	Arnold Schwarzenegger	I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country	86
14	Barack Obama	We have a stake in one another, what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done for the people with whom we share this Earth	86
15	Barack Obama	I will also go through the federal budget, line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less, because we cannot meet 21st century challenges with a 20th century bureaucracy	86
16	Bruce Lee	Art is the expression of the self. The more complicated and restricted the method, the less the opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom. Though they play an important role in the early stage, the techniques should not be too mechanical, complex or restrictive. If we cling blindly to them, we shall eventually become bound by their limitations. Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques. If somebody attacks you, your response is not Technique No.1, Stance No. 2, Section 4, Paragraph 5. Instead you simply move in like sound and echo, without any deliberation. It is as though when I call you, you answer me, or when I throw you something, you catch it. It's as simple as that - no fuss, no mess. In other words, when someone grabs you, punch him. To me a lot of this fancy stuff is not functional	86
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17	Bruce Lee	It's not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that counts. "Being" is more valued than "doing"	86
18	Deepak Chopra	Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've made in the past	86
19	Ingvar Kamprad	We must be willing to accept criticism and act upon it without delay. Listen to customers, suppliers and others around you. Friendliness, appreciation and praise are good investments which don't cost anything. Being humble means admitting your mistakes, not blaming others. It's big to say you're sorry	86
20	Ingvar Kamprad	With the privilege of making mistakes, there also follows the responsibility to put them right afterwards. We aren't trying to defend bad ideas. Explaining why things go wrong is a waste of time, so instead we just put them right, and then, if need be, we make more changes later on	86
21	Aristotle	Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead	85
22	Aristotle	We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us	85
23	Aristotle	The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law	85
24	Aristotle	In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech	85
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25	Aristotle	We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action	85
26	Arnold Schwarzenegger	Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength	85
27	Barack Obama	We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times, and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen	85
28	Bruce Lee	You have choice - you are master of your attitude - choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success	85
29	Bruce Lee	Real living is living for others	85
30	Bruce Lee	Ideas are the beginning of all achievement	85
31	Bruce Lee	Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself; do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it	85
32	Deepak Chopra	The energy born of love is creative - it makes everything it touches new. To see how passionate you are, look around at what you have created	85
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33	Ingvar Kamprad	We can also avoid a lot of stupid mistakes, and save ourselves the problem of having to spread our resources thinly if we make sure that we never start projects that we can't see through to the end. A one-off purchasing trip to a new country; an intensive course in a language you don't use very often; an investment in machinery at a factory where there are no technicians - these are all examples of how to waste resources. And all of these situations can be avoided, just as long as you always ask yourself, "Am I really going to be able to see this through?"	85
34	Nelson Mandela	As a leader, I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom: a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind	85
35	Aristotle	Well begun is half done	84
36	Aristotle	Good habits formed at youth make all the difference	84
37	Bruce Lee	The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement	84
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38	Bruce Lee	Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish	84
39	Bruce Lee	A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence	84
40	Bruce Lee	All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns	84
41	Gandhi	Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience	84
42	Ingvar Kamprad	Our ambition to develop ourselves as human beings and co-workers must remain high. Humbleness is the key word. Being humble means so much to us in our work and in our leisure. It is even decisive for us as human beings. It means not just consideration and respect for our fellow men and women, but also kindness and generosity. Will-power and strength without humbleness often lead to conflict. Together with humbleness, will-power and strength are your secret weapons for development as an individual and fellow human being	84
43	Ingvar Kamprad	The fear of making mistakes is the root of bureaucracy and the enemy of development	84
44	Ingvar Kamprad	Waste of resources is one of the greatest diseases of mankind. Many modern buildings are more like monuments to human stupidity than rational answers to needs. But waste costs us even more in little everyday things: filing papers that you will never need again; spending time proving that you were right anyway; postponing a decision to the next meeting because you do not want to take the responsibility now; telephoning when you could just as easily write a note or send a fax. The list is endless	84
45	Aristotle	What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing	83
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46	Aristotle	The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances	83
47	Aristotle	It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest assured with that degree of precision that the nature of the subject admits, and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible	83
48	Arnold Schwarzenegger	The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent	83
49	Barack Obama	Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek	83
50	Barack Obama	We measure the strength of our economy not by the number of billionaires we have or the profits of the Fortune 500, but by whether someone with a good idea can take a risk and start a new business	83
51	Barack Obama	We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough	83
52	Bruce Lee	Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail	83
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53	Bruce Lee	Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony	83
54	Bruce Lee	The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time	83
55	Bruce Lee	The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation	83
56	Bruce Lee	Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul	83
57	Clint Eastwood	Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands	83
58	Deepak Chopra	The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe	83
59	Gandhi	Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory	83
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60	Ingvar Kamprad	We must bear in mind that today's success can soon turn into tomorrow's failure if we let ourselves become intoxicated with our own achievements rather than knuckling down to more hard work	83
61	Ingvar Kamprad	Being humble isn't the same as keeping a low profile. If you have something important to say, say it. Being humble means admitting your weaknesses, and trying to put them right	83
62	Ingvar Kamprad	We are humble towards our competitors respecting their proficiency, and realising that we constantly have to be better than they are, if we're not going to lose our market to them	83
63	Ingvar Kamprad	Ten minutes are not just a sixth of your hourly pay. Ten minutes are a piece of yourself. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity	83
64	Ingvar Kamprad	Will-power isn't the same as always getting your own way. Trying to get your own way without being humble, without respecting other people's opinions, doesn't get you anywhere. It just leads you into an endless maze of discussions, confrontations and endless rounds of meetings. Will-power means first agreeing on mutual objectives and then not letting anything stand in the way of actually achieving them	83
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65	Ingvar Kamprad	The companies whose staff see their job as merely a meal ticket - they are the companies which have problems. No one can be happy or do a good job unless they like the place where they work. After all, it's there that they spend most of their waking hours. Feeling appreciated and motivated leads to good results	83
66	Jim Carrey	I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me. I was that weird Jim Boy, you know, "Stay away from him." Then I suddenly realized that all the shtick I pulled at home could also work at school. I recall the first day that I stood in front of the school and fell up the stairs. People started self-combusting with laughter. I went from "Jim's a geek" to "Jim really is a moron, but we like it!" From then on, there was no stopping me - I was relentless. Every class became The Jim Carrey Show. I was like a disease in the class. I remember being sent out of the room a lot. The hall became my domain	83
67	Aristotle	He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander	82
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68	Aristotle	With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it	82
69	Aristotle	The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain	82
70	Arnold Schwarzenegger	What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know	82
71	Arnold Schwarzenegger	Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach	82
72	Barack Obama	We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent	82
73	Barack Obama	What Washington needs is adult supervision	82
74	Boris Becker	I'm not a God, I make mistakes	82
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75	Bruce Lee	In primary freedom, one utilizes all ways and is bound by none, and likewise uses any techniques or means which serves one's end. Efficiency is anything that scores	82
76	Bruce Lee	The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering	82
77	Bruce Lee	How can I be me?	82
78	Bruce Lee	True refinement seeks simplicity	82
79	Bruce Lee	As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule	82
80	Bruce Lee	If you want to learn to swim, jump into the water. On dry land, no frame of mind is ever going to help you	82
81	Bruce Lee	Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves	82
82	Bruce Lee	Simplicity is the key to brilliance	82
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83	Clint Eastwood	I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will	82
84	Clint Eastwood	My father used to say to me, "Show 'em what you can do, and don't worry about what you're gonna get. Say you'll work for free and make yourself invaluable"	82
85	Deepak Chopra	We are here and now - That is a miracle	82
86	Deepak Chopra	Your life can only be as free as your perception of it	82
87	Gandhi	We must become the change we want to see in the world	82
88	Gandhi	The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem	82
89	Ingvar Kamprad	The key words behind simplicity are efficiency, common sense and doing what comes naturally. If we do what feels natural, we will avoid complicated solutions. The fewer the rules and the shorter the instructions, the easier and more natural it is to stick to them. The simpler the explanation, the easier it is to understand it and carry it out. Only don't forget that no task is so "simple" that it doesn't need any explaining at all, and no one can possibly enjoy doing a job unless they understand properly why they're doing it	82
90	Ingvar Kamprad	To achieve our aim, we must have resources - especially in the area of finance. We do not believe in waiting for ripe plums to fall into our mouths. We believe in hard, committed work that brings results	82
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91	Ingvar Kamprad	Most things still remain to be done	82
92	Nelson Mandela	During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to see realized. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die	82
93	Nelson Mandela	I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all! I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands	82
94	Oscar Wilde	Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more	82
95	Warren Buffet	The approach and strategies are very similar in that you gather all the information you can and then keep adding to that base of information as things develop. You do whatever the probabilities indicated based on the knowledge that you have at that time, but you are always willing to modify your behaviour or your approach as you get new information. In bridge, you behave in a way that gets the best from your partner. And in business, you behave in the way that gets the best from your managers and your employees	82
96	Aristotle	Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them	81
97	Aristotle	The whole is more than the sum of its parts	81
98	Arnold Schwarzenegger	My upbringing contributed a lot to my success. My father was a police officer and wanted his family to be the perfect example to the town. We couldn't do anything bad. He was very strict, checking out everything... if we were clean, if our shoes were brushed. I was brought up under great discipline, which meant that when I made up my mind I had to follow it through. I had a master plan from the moment I arrived in America. That's still in me. Every year I set a goal: to win the Mr. Olympia or to get so many units in business school, to make a certain amount of money, to travel to five or six different countries. Every year I make a plan. I do it. It will be done	81
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99	Arnold Schwarzenegger	When I was ten years old I got this thing that I wanted to be the best in something, so I started swimming. I won championships, but I felt I couldn't be the best. I tried skiing, but there I felt I didn't have potential. I played soccer, but I didn't like that too well because there I didn't get the credit alone if I did something special. I just avoided team sports from then on. Then I started lifting through the other sports and I enjoyed it the most. I won the Austrian championship in 1964 but found out I was too tall. So I quit that and went into body building. Two years later I found out that that's it - that's what I can be the best in	81
100	Barack Obama	Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement	81
101	Barack Obama	We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force. In the past, it has been movements for freedom from within tyrannical regimes that have led to flourishing democracies	81
102	Barack Obama	We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion and surgical strikes aren't going to work	81
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103	Bruce Lee	I have come to discover through earnest personal experience and dedicated learning that ultimately the greatest help if self-help; that there is no other help but self-help - doing one's best, dedicating one's self wholeheartedly to a given task, which happens to have no end but is an ongoing process. I have done a lot during these years of my process. A swell in my process, I have changed from self-image actualization to self-actualization, from blindly following propaganda, organized truths, etc. to searching internally for the cause of my ignorance	81
104	Bruce Lee	Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential	81
105	Bruce Lee	Efficiency in sparring and fighting is not a matter of correct classical, traditional form. Efficiency is anything that scores. Creating fancy forms and classical sets to replace sparring is like trying to wrap and tie a pound of water into a manageable shape of paper sack. For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living. In sparring there's no exact path or method, but instead a perceptive, pliable, choice-less awareness. It lives from moment to moment	81
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106	Deepak Chopra	Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging	81
107	Gandhi	I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent	81
108	Ingvar Kamprad	We must learn how to give constructive criticism. Nothing your co-workers do can be so bad that you can't find a single positive thing to say about it. It's every manager's responsibility to follow up and give criticism. Always mention the good things first, but don't back away from discussing what is less good. This is the innermost essence of honesty	81
109	Ingvar Kamprad	For those of you who bear any kind of leadership responsibility, it is crucially important to motivate and develop your co-workers. A team spirit is a fine thing, but it requires everybody in the team to be dedicated to their tasks. You, as the captain, make the decisions after consulting the team. There is no time for argument afterwards. Take a football team as your model!	81
110	Karl Marx	The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it	81
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111	Karl Marx	The materialist conception of history starts from the proposition that the production of the means to support human life and, next to production, the exchange of things produced, is the basis of all social structure; that in every society that has appeared in history, the manner in which wealth is distributed and society divided into classes or orders is dependent upon what is produced, how it is produced, and how the products are exchanged. From this point of view, the final causes of all social changes and political revolutions are to be sought, not in men's brains, not in men's better insights into eternal truth and justice, but in changes in the modes of production and exchange	81
112	Mother Teresa	The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace	81
113	Nelson Mandela	The first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself. Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility	81
114	Oscar Wilde	There is no sin except stupidity	81
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115	Oscar Wilde	Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation	81
116	Oscar Wilde	The best way to make children good is to make them happy	81
117	Quentin Tarantino	To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper	81
118	Warren Buffet	Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken	81
119	Warren Buffet	Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks	81
120	Will Smith	I truly believe that I can be president of the US if I really want to	81
121	Xiao Ping Deng	Black cat or white cat, as long as it catches mice it's a good cat	81
122	Alanis Morissette	The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss	80
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123	Bruce Lee	Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them	80
124	Bruce Lee	What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become	80
125	Bruce Lee	The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits	80
126	Bruce Lee	In life, what more can you ask for than to be real? To fulfill one's potential instead of wasting energy on attempting to actualize one's dissipating image, which is not real and an expenditure of one's vital energy. We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day - sometimes good, sometimes frustrating. No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness	80
127	Deepak Chopra	Always is never true; reality isn't a vast, fixed scheme trapping you without choice. At any moment you have the choice to break out of what is really trapping you - your automatic reactions dredged up from the past	80
128	Deepak Chopra	Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution	80
129	Deepak Chopra	Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart	80
130	Gandhi	Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony	80
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131	Gandhi	The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right	80
132	Gandhi	It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity	80
133	Ingvar Kamprad	A job must never be just a livelihood. If you are not enthusiastic about your job, a third of your life goes to waste, and a magazine in your desk drawer can never make up for that	80
134	Ingvar Kamprad	We have already learned that success can be a dangerous thing. It can easily lead to stagnation and death. Once we've accomplished one thing, we need to remember that there is still plenty left to do. The conviction that we are always on the way, always on the brink of something new and exciting, makes it easy for us to tackle new challenges with enthusiasm. Of course, we have the right to feel satisfied occasionally, but not for too long, otherwise it will smother the ardour that glows inside us	80
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135	Ingvar Kamprad	Learn to use your common sense. Learn how to say "no" and learn how to stop activities which never should have been started in the first place. Learn to limit the number of decisions you have to make, because you know all too well that too many decisions tend to lead to poor results! It won't necessarily make you popular, but at least you'll be respected for it, and you'll get the lasting results you need!	80
136	Ingvar Kamprad	Get in the habit of questioning conventional wisdom! And not just old ideas, but new ones as well. Of course, it's only natural to be enthusiastic about new suggestions and overlook the difficulties, but make sure that you always keep your feet firmly on the ground, and that you can tell the difference between what is feasible and what is mere fantasy	80
137	Ingvar Kamprad	Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction	80
138	Ingvar Kamprad	Planning is often synonymous with bureaucracy. Planning is, of course, needed to lay out guidelines for your work and to enable a company to function in the long term. But do not forget that exaggerated planning is the most common cause of corporate death. Exaggerated planning constrains your freedom of action and leaves you less time to get things done. Complicated planning paralyses. So let simplicity and common sense guide your planning	80
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139	Ingvar Kamprad	We need to combat our fear of making mistakes. We must allow people to get things wrong now and again. We have to encourage initiative and dynamism, give young co-workers responsibility, constantly remind people that missed opportunities result in indirect expenses which may sometimes be a good deal higher than those incurred directly	80
140	Karl Marx	While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser	80
141	Karl Marx	Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state	80
142	Oscar Wilde	The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for	80
143	Oscar Wilde	The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates	80
144	Oscar Wilde	I don't play accurately. Any one can play accurately, but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life	80
145	Shakespeare	What's done can't be undone	80
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146	Shakespeare	They do not love that do not show their love	80
147	Shakespeare	It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves	80
148	Shakespeare	What's gone and what's past help should be past grief	80
149	Will Smith	People laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I would be president	80
150	Xiao Ping Deng	Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big	80
151	Zig Ziglar	A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job	80
152	Zig Ziglar	You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal	80
153	Aristotle	The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands	79
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154	Aristotle	The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet	79
155	Aristotle	A true friend is one soul in two bodies	79
156	Aristotle	Quality is not an act, it is a habit	79
157	Aristotle	Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts	79
158	Aristotle	Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so	79
159	Arnold Schwarzenegger	You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect	79
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160	Arnold Schwarzenegger	What I'm doing is the thing I want to do. I don't care what other people think. If the rest disagrees and says I shouldn't waste my time, I still will be a bodybuilder. I love it. I love the feeling in my muscles, I love the competition, and I love the things it gives me. I have never really had to work in my whole life. I've never had an eight to six job. I've always made good money. I've traveled all over the world competing and giving exhibitions. I've made a profession out of a pastime, which perhaps only five percent of the population can do. The other ninety-five percent are frustrated office workers, working for someone else. I'm totally independent. So, I feel, if I would live again or if I would be born again, I would do exactly the same thing	79
161	Barack Obama	You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations	79
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162	Bruce Lee	You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession. For instance, if a man has decided that he is going to bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter	79
163	Bruce Lee	The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good for a Judo man	79
164	Bruce Lee	I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine	79
165	Bruce Lee	Practice all movements slow and fast, soft and hard; the effectiveness of Jeet Kune-Do depends on split-second timing and reflexive action, which can be achieved only through repetitious practice	79
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166	Bruce Lee	Please do not be concerned with soft versus firm, kicking versus striking, grappling versus hitting and kicking, long-range fighting versus in-fighting. There is no such thing as "this" is better than "that". Should there be one thing we must guard against, let it be partiality that robs us of our pristine wholeness and make us lose unity in the midst of duality	79
167	Bruce Lee	Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it	79
168	Bruce Lee	Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed	79
169	Bruce Lee	The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow	79
170	Bruce Lee	Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man	79
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171	Bruce Lee	Liberate yourself from concepts and see the truth with your own eyes. It exists here and now. It requires only one thing to see it: openness, freedom - the freedom to be open and not tethered by any ideas, concepts, etc. When our mind is tranquil, there will be an occasional pause to its feverish activities, there will be a let-go, and it is only then in the interval between two thoughts that a flash of understanding - understanding, which is not thought - can take place	79
172	Bruce Lee	Seek to understand the root. It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming	79
173	Bruce Lee	There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment	79
174	Bruce Lee	A teacher must never impose a student to fit his favourite pattern. A good teacher functions as a pointer, exposing his student's vulnerability, causing him to explore both internally and finally integrating himself with his being.	79
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175	Bruce Lee	We are always in a process of becoming, and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing. open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openess of the living moment. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo	79
176	Clint Eastwood	The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice	79
177	Clint Eastwood	Life is a constant class, and once you think you know it all, you're due to decay. You're due to slide. I have to keep challenging myself and try something I haven't done before. The studios aren't always happy with that. When I wanted to make Mystic River, the studio said, "Uh-oh, it's so dark". And I said, "Well, it's important. And it's a nice story". Then the next movie, Million Dollar Baby, they said, "Who wants to see a picture about a girl boxing?" And I said, "It's really a father-daughter love story. Boxing just happens to be what's going on". They didn't have much faith. So there are always obstacles and people afraid to take risks. That's why you end up with remakes of old TV shows as movies. But playing it safe is what's risky, because nothing new comes out of it	79
178	Deepak Chopra	Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom	79
179	Deepak Chopra	Human beings are made of body, mind and spirit. Of these, spirit is primary, for it connects us to the source of everything, The eternal field of consciousness	79
180	Deepak Chopra	The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years	79
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