"The reason diets and other how-to's don't work for most people is the same reason most how-to books and courses don't work for most people. It isn't that the actions are wrong. It's that people don't keep doing them."

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Source : Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.19, Greenleaf Book Group

Jeff Olson

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“I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.”
“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
“If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.”

Source : George Steiner (2010). “No Passion Spent”, p.224, Faber & Faber
“The poor, no less than the rich, stay tuned in to the Dream Machine in bad times as well as good....By 1995, millions of the poor were left without housing, medical care; jobs, or educational opportunity; six million children-one of every four kids under 6 years of age in America-were officially poor. Mired in Third-World conditions of poverty while video-bombarded with First-World dreams, rarely has a population suffered a greater gap between socially cultivated appetites and socially available opportunities.”
“Good is not good, where better is expected”

Source : Thomas Fuller (1891). “The Collected Sermons of Thomas Fuller”
“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”

Source : Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.51, Clap Publishing, LLC.
“I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.”

Source : "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.
“I don't really like being emotional. Public displays of emotion, I don't really do that sort of stuff. I don't know why. I would like to be the type that doesn't worry about that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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