"I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that youâ€™ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed."

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Source : Jordan Belfort (2007). “The Wolf of Wall Street”, p.98, Bantam

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“Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.”
“I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.”

Source : "Rights groups: prominent Chinese activist and wife beaten" by Jo Ling Kent and Jaime Florcruz, www.cnn.com. February 11, 2011.
“They left us together for a reason. Let's show them why.”
“I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.”

Source : "Boll, Uwe (Bloodrayne)". Interview with Jon Condit, www.dreadcentral.com. January 1, 2006.
“In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.”
“It's not enough just being a good passer of the ball.”
“We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.”
“I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.”

Source : Davy Crockett (1834). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...”

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