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Quote 3170
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3168
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3166
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3139
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3137
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3136
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3128
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3114
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3093
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3090
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successfulShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3068
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surfaceShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3060
The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3036
It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure headShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3005
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.by: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3002
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.by: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2990
If I’d listened to my consumers, I’d have given them a faster horseby: Henry FordShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2987
Knowledge is like a baobab tree - one person's arms are not enough to encompass itAfrican proverbShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2981
Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hivesby: Hyppolyte TaineShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2935
Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no usesby: John LockeShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2876
Those who never have time do leastShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2857
To be content with life, or to live merrily, rather, all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we growShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2814
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myselfby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2591
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2590
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to itShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2587
In science, we must be interested in things, not in personsShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2586
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easyShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2585
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be doneShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2582
You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.by: Edward CokeShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2506
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practiceby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2491
It is better to plan less and do moreShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2490
Do anything rather than give yourself to reverieShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2484
Difficulty is the element, and resistance the true work of a manShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2482
Practice makes perfect, so be careful what you practiceShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2478
It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a stateShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2427
Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinatelyby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2421
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing itby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2419
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitledby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2418
I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that lineby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2415
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted somethingby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2412
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!by: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2411
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basketby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2409
The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.by: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2408
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itselfby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2407
And while the law (of competition) may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every departmentby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2403
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shellby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2398
All men were created to busy themselves with labor for the common goodby: Johannes CalvinShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2395
Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishmentsby: Johannes CalvinShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2375
We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained itShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2361
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well, and of others not to write at allShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2345
Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocksShowing Quotes on performance
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