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When the task we give ourselves has the urgency of passion, there's nothing that can keep us from completing it.
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)
One's objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out, and get it over... your problem won't improve with age.
Interview with Warren Buffett, Harvard Business Review, Norman Augustine (1995)
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
Dubliners
The good you have done, the kind words you have spoken, the love you have shown to others, can never be fully measured.
It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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