"Stick with your own perception of yourself-living in your own world-and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or particular situations, control your performance."

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Source : John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.63, Diversion Books

John Eliot

#Inspirational Quotes #Reality Quotes #People Quotes

“I really enjoy what I'm doing.”
“New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.”
“I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.”
“A great deal of living must go to a very little writing.”

Source : Frances Ridley Havergal (1892). “Golden Thoughts from the Life and Works of Frances Ridley Havergal ...”
“Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.”
“I don't want the stage. I'm terrified of giving these talking heads some distraction, some excuse to jeopardize, smear, and delegitimize a very important movement.”
“In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything.”
“When I do something, I do it all the way. I've been in show business so many years. I've achieved a lot of things.”

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