"This is a key to all drug addiction—the drug creates the low and then deceives its victims into believing that, by ending the low, it is providing a high."
from "This Naked Mind: by Annie Grace
But there’s something else I’ve found this year. It’s that fighting to survive keeps you going for quite a while. When you are no longer in a survive-or-die mode, it’s not that easy to get motivated every day. (from Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson)
“Strategy is accepting that you are doing something better than the other and the other is doing something better than you. You have to pick your fight.”
- Axel Dumas, CEO of Hermes
"I tried to conduct myself in such a way that I wanted my players to act. I think our youngsters, whether they be basketball players or our children at home, need models more than they need critics." John Wooden
40 things Rockefeller wrote to his son:
I never thought I would lose.
I do not meet competition. I destroy competitors.
Our destiny is determined by our actions and not by our origins.
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Talk doesn't cook rice
Deliberatness and curiosity will cure boredom in any task.