"Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product."

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Source : Adam Grant (2013). “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success”, p.181, Penguin

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“Remember, what may appear to be the source of one's strength can often also be the source of one's weakness.”

Source : Chin-Ning Chu (2010). “Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life”, p.175, Hachette UK
“Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it is the truth.”

Source : "Benjamin Peirce, 1809-1880 : Biographical Sketch and Bibliography". Book by R. C. Archibald, 1925.
“I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.”
“Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.”
“Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.”
“Rather than look at a marriage as two people morphing into one thing, you could see two individuals who are choosing to form a partnership.”
“Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it...”
“I was never a natural. I got there in the end because I did believe that if you work hard enough, then you can achieve a lot.”

Source : "Victoria Beckham Covers Allure Magazine’s March Issue, Looks Pretty ‘Natural’ To Us" by Jamie Feldman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 18, 2014.

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