Fitzhugh Dodson famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.
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First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.
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Some people, in working towards a goal, find themselves seized by inertia when it comes time for action. If this should happen to you, despite the small graduated steps, then it is time to re-examine your goal. Consider how important it actually is and then either discard the goal and replace it with more suitable one or continue the steps with a renewed sense of the value of achieving it.
-- Fitzhugh Dodson
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!
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The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.
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A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition... and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.
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The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.
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If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.
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