"Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting whatâ€™s not working."

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Source : Derek Sivers (2015). “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur”, p.8, Penguin

Derek Sivers

“If we are the sheep of His pasture, remember that sheep are headed for the altar.”
“Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.”
“I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.”
“You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less time you'll have to put into creating great images. Worry about your images, not your equipment.”
“I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose. I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks. But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.”
“The way I see it there are two types of people. Those stupid enough to get ripped off by people selling ringtones and those sensible enough to set up ringtone selling services.”
“Women play just as hard as guys do. We're just as competitive.”

Source : "WNBA Star Sheryl Swoopes: I'm Gay", www.foxnews.com. October 26, 2005.
“Saw is like a big jigsaw puzzle. When you put a jigsaw puzzle together, you put the bottom left corner together first, and then you find yourself working on the upper right corner... Thats the way Saw plays out.”

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