"Success requires strenuous effort, but it's a proven fact statistically that most people are as lazy as they dare to be and still get by."

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Source : James K. Van Fleet (1987). “Hidden Power: How to Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.55, Penguin

James Van Fleet

#Success Quotes #People Quotes #Effort Quotes

“Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone”
“I do write. I actually do want to start my music as well. My sister and I are starting a band. I've been playing a guitar for nine years, and she plays piano, and we sing together. We're going to start up something soon. I mostly am writing songs right now actually, but I would love to write a script someday.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.”
“It's very difficult, I think for most writers, to carve out the time and the kind of imaginative space to do the writing that you really want to do and also to be an active, engaged, compassionate, giving human being in the world, to the people around you and to your broader community.”

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“The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.”

Source : Murray Leinster (2007). “The Planet Explorer”, p.85, Wildside Press LLC
“What I am concerned about in this fast-moving world in a time of crises, both in foreign and domestic affairs, is not so much a program as a spirit of approach, not so much a mind as a heart. A program lives today and dies tomorrow. A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, but the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides.”
“God must have said, "I know what I'll do, I'll send my Love right down there where they are. And I'll send it as a tiny baby, so they'll have to touch it, and they'll have to hold it close."”
“Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others.”

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