In a first, Bitcoin developers have done something amazing amid the criticism over the lightning network and issues associated with it. A team of developers has made an international payment using the radio waves on the lightning network.
Rodolfo Novak, the co-founder of the startup CoinKite sent out a Bitcoin transaction to Bloomberg columnist Elaine Ou from Toronto Canada to San Francisco, California. The current feat is quite remarkable given how dependent our current system of banking is on the internet. So, under the circumstances of an Internet shut down, you can still send or receive Bitcoin using the radio waves
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Wish you… as well as to all my readers, to find a sparkle of wisdom in these quotes, that shall illuminate your path/s….
๐ & ๐งก
Always in my heart and thoughts, to my dearest copacel Emily, my sweet bumblebee, may you always seak greatness and never ask for permission and always be guided by the light of papi’s simple way of life called by giants upon shoulders we walk upon, simply …
“Sapere Aude”
ORIGIN OF MEDIOCRITY
First recorded in 1400โ50; late Middle English mediocrite, from Middle French mediocrite, from Latin mediocritฤt-, stem of mediocritฤs โmiddle state, moderationโ; equivalent to mediocre + -ity.
Mediocrity
Definitions from The American Heritageยฎ Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun The state or quality of being mediocre.
noun Mediocre ability, achievement, or performance.
noun One that displays mediocre qualities.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun The character or state of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate; specifically, a moderate degree of mental ability.
noun Moderation; temperance.
noun A mediocre person; one of moderate capacity or ability; hence, a person of little note or repute; one who is little more than a nobody.
noun Synonyms Medium, Average, etc. See mean, n.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate.
noun obsolete Moderation; temperance.
noun A mediocre person; — used disparagingly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun The quality of being intermediate between two extremes; a mean.
noun obsolete A middle course of action; moderation, balance.
noun uncountable The condition of being mediocre; having only an average degree of quality, skills etc.; no better than standard.
noun An individual with mediocre abilities or achievements.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding
noun a person of second-rate ability or value
โPeople who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how great their other talents.โ
Andrew Carnegie
โMediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.โ
Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Valley of Fear”
โIdleness is fatal only to the mediocre.โ
Albert Camus
โIn the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.โ
Robert G. Ingersoll
โLife without madness is mediocrity.โ
Nelou Keramati
โPeople don’t want to think.
And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.
But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty.
So they’ll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking.
Anyone who makes a virtue – a highly intellectual virtue – out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt…
They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors.
They don’t know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bearโ
Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged”
โThe highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.โ
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
โGet off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity.
Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.โ
Ryan Lilly
โThe statistics all point towards the same conclusion: we have a global outbreak of fuckarounditis.โ
Martin Berkhan “The Leangains Method: The Art of Getting Ripped. Researched, Practiced, Perfected.”
โNietzsche talked about โgood and badโ in the context of nobility.
The nobles regarded the exceptional as good and the mediocre as bad.
When the โgood and badโ of the nobility was replaced by the โgood and evilโ of the mob, exceptionalism was declared evil, and mediocrity was sanctified.
The holy mediocrities are now everywhere.
The kingdom of mediocrity is absolute โฆ
absolute shit!โ
David Sinclair “The Wolf Tamers: How They Made the Strong Weak”
โThereโs nothing brave in pushing myself to the edge of my comfort zone.
Bravery is about refusing to be in any kind of comfort zone in the first place.โ
Craig D. Lounsbrough
โWhenever a book or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that whoever writes for fools always finds a large audience.โ
Arthur Schopenhauer “Religion: a Dialogue”
โMediocre people promote mediocrity.
Dont hire mediocre people.
Instead, hire people who strive for greatness and they’ll spread that greatness throughout the company.โ
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth
โMediocrity is never a desirable destination….
At least, not when practice might transform mediocrity to competence, or even skill.’
Napoleon Bonapartโ
Allison Pataki “The Queen’s Fortune”
โWhen leaders tolerate mediocrity, itโs a cancer that spreads like wildfire.โ
Frank Sonnenberg “Listen to Your Conscience: That’s Why You Have One”
โThe death of quality foreshadows the death of humanity.
What is the point of humanity if it does not produce the highest quality and excellence?
A humanity that is not ascending is descending.
As it is, the crushing weight of averageness and mediocrity presses down on everything and makes all high things flat, drab and dull.
All the tall poppies have to die.
The only tall poppies the mediocre like are those associated with wealth, beauty and fame.
They despise the intelligent, the artistic and the technical.โ
Joe Dixon “The Irresistible Rise of Mediocre Man: The War On Excellence”
โWe can choose to believe in ourselves, and thus to strive, to risk, to persevere, and to achieve.
Or we can choose to cling to security and mediocrity.
We can choose to set no limits on ourselves, to set high goals and dream big dreams.
We can use those dreams to fuel our spirits with passion.โ
Bob Rotella “How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life”
โThe greatest enemy of enlightenment is โcommon senseโ.
In day-today life, common sense โworksโ, which is why ordinary people revere it.
Most managers in the workplace are good at common sense i.e. knowing how to play the system, to obey the rules, to pander to higher managers, to avoid radical ideas, to highlight their modest successes and blame others for their failures, and to stick firmly within the domain of the conventional, acceptable and uncontroversial.
Unfortunately, theyโre hopeless at everything else.
All geniuses, on the other hand, can โseeโ far beyond the realm of common sense.
They use imagination, intuition and visionary ideas as their guides, not the trivialities of common sense.
What would you rather be โ a middle manager with a comfortable common sense life, or a genius who has unlocked the door to the mysteries of existence?
Tragically for humanity, most people aspire to be middle managers.
Thatโs the extent of their ambition, thatโs as far as their horizons stretch.
These are the sort of people that Nietzsche scornfully branded as โLast Men.โ
Adam Weishaupt “The Illuminati’s Six Dimensional Universe”
โNothing is good but mediocrity.
The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end.โ
Blaise Pascal “Pensรฉes”
โI no longer follow the voices of the sane.
I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change what the sane will not.
This is the paradox of philosophers—trying to understand mass delusion among great people that have faith and knowledge, yet they canโt graduate from their institutions of religious theology to apply the knowledge they have gained for the shifting of Zion—- from words to action;
from comfort to uncomfortable;
from self serving to self giving;
from competition to supporting;
to tradition to unity;
from bias to acceptance;
from me to us.โ
Shannon L. Alder
โMediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration.
For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.โ
Amelia E. Barr
โAcceptable hypocrisy is often called politeness.โ
Shannon L. Alder
โYou will always feel insignificant if you never do anything to change the world or another person’s life, other than your own.โ
Shannon L. Alder
โCaution is the path to mediocrity.
Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.โ
Frank Herbert “God Emperor of Dune”
โI’m going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid.
I don’t find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you.
How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity?
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“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Lao Tzu
The First step …๐ค๐๐ค Brings me back on the memory lane… In the ancient times of 2011, when I read for the first time about this BitCorn thing…
Then, I read the WhitePaper… As much or little as I understood at the time, I had a strange Sehnsucht about it and went down the proverbial rabbit hole…
Only to discover with amazement and dismay… It’s the Moria’s Mines down here…
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The Power is strong in this young Jedi, he just doesn’t know yet to channel it !!!
Me here to help Mr BushCraft mate ๐๐คฃ๐ !
Enjoy the Wisdoms of these quotes !!!
๐ & ๐งก
Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future.
It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the conscious experience.
Time is often referred to as a fourth dimension, along with three spatial dimensions.
Time is one of the seven fundamental physical quantities in both the International System of Units (SI) and International System of Quantities. The SI base unit of time is the second, which is defined by measuring the electronic transition frequency of caesium atoms.
General relativity is the primary framework for understanding how spacetime works. Through advances in both theoretical and experimental investigations of spacetime, it has been shown that time can be distorted and dilated, particularly at the edges of black holes.
Throughout history, time has been an important subject of study in religion, philosophy, and science.
Temporal measurement has occupied scientists and technologists and was a prime motivation in navigation and astronomy.
Time is also of significant social importance, having economic value (“time is money”) as well as personal value, due to an awareness of the limited time in each day and in human life spans
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
Marthe Troly-Curtin, “Phrynette Married”
“Donโt waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges.
Life is too short to be unhappy.”
Roy T. Bennett
“How did it get so late so soon?”
Dr. Seuss
“For what itโs worth: itโs never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.
Thereโs no time limit, stop whenever you want.
You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing.
We can make the best or the worst of it.
I hope you make the best of it.
And I hope you see things that startle you.
I hope you feel things you never felt before.
I hope you meet people with a different point of view.
I hope you live a life youโre proud of.
If you find that youโre not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
Eric Roth, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay”
“I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seen Of meadow flowers and butterflies In summers that have been
Of yellow leaves and gossamer In autumns that there were With morning mist and silver sun And wind upon my hair
I sit beside the fire and think Of how the world will be When winter comes without a spring That I shall ever see
For still there are so many things That I have never seen In every wood in every spring There is a different green
I sit beside the fire and think Of people long ago And people that will see a world That I shall never know
But all the while I sit and think Of times there were before I listen for returning feet And voices at the door”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Time is an illusion.”
Albert Einstein
“You may delay, but time will not.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
Heraclitus, “Fragments”
“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Time isnโt precious at all, because it is an illusion.
What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time:
the Now.
That is precious indeed.
The more you are focused on timeโpast and futureโthe more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”
Eckhart Tolle, “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”
“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden.
A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject…
And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages.
There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them…
Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
Seneca, “Natural Questions”
“Fantasy, if it’s really convincing, can’t become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.”
Walt Disney
The Universe is very, very big.
It also loves a paradox.
For example, it has some extremely strict rules.
Rule number one:
Nothing lasts forever.
Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun.
It is an absolute rule.
Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies.
Rule number two:
Everything lasts forever.”
Craig Ferguson, “Between the Bridge and the River”
“Punctuality is the thief of time.”
Oscar Wilde
“the tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.”
Charles Bukowski
“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”
Dante Alighieri
“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“Do not wait: the time will never be ‘just right’.
Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”
Napoleon Hill
The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the universe created itself. โฆ
Time itself must come to a stop.
You canโt get to a time before the big bang, because there was no time before the big bang.
We have finally found something that does not have a cause because there was no time for a cause to exist in.
For me this means there is no possibility of a creator because there is no time for a creator to have existed.
Since time itself began at the moment of the Big Bang, it was an event that could not have been caused or created by anyone or anything. โฆ
So when people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them the question itself makes no sense.
Time didnโt exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in.
Itโs like asking for directions to the edge of the Earth.
The Earth is a sphere.
It does not have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.”
Stephen W. Hawking
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.”
Eckhart Tolle
“A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune.”
William Faulkner, “The Sound and the Fury”
“Nothing endures but change.”
Heraclitus
If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth’s history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances no further for the next sixteen hours.
Not until almost 8:30 in the evening, with the day five-sixths over, has Earth anything to show the universe but a restless skin of microbes.
Then, finally, the first sea plants appear, followed twenty minutes later by the first jellyfish and the enigmatic Ediacaran fauna first seen by Reginald Sprigg in Australia.
At 9:04 P.M. trilobites swim onto the scene, followed more or less immediately by the shapely creatures of the Burgess Shale.
Just before 10 P.M. plants begin to pop up on the land. Soon after, with less than two hours left in the day, the first land creatures follow.
Thanks to ten minutes or so of balmy weather, by 10:24 the Earth is covered in the great carboniferous forests whose residues give us all our coal, and the first winged insects are evident.
Dinosaurs plod onto the scene just before 11 P.M. and hold sway for about three-quarters of an hour.
At twenty-one minutes to midnight they vanish and the age of mammals begins.
Humans emerge one minute and seventeen seconds before midnight.
The whole of our recorded history, on this scale, would be no more than a few seconds, a single human lifetime barely an instant.
Throughout this greatly speeded-up day continents slide about and bang together at a clip that seems positively reckless.
Mountains rise and melt away, ocean basins come and go, ice sheets advance and withdraw.
And throughout the whole, about three times every minute, somewhere on the planet there is a flash-bulb pop of light marking the impact of a Manson-sized meteor or one even larger.
It’s a wonder that anything at all can survive in such a pummeled and unsettled environment.
In fact, not many things do for long.”
Bill Bryson, “A Short History of Nearly Everything”
“Time is Galleons, little brother.”
J.K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”
“The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit.
Nothing that means anything happens quickly–we only think it does.
The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making.
So it is with a life, anyone’s life. I may list things that might be described as my accomplishments in these few pages, but they are only shadows of the larger truth, fragments separated from the whole cycle of becoming.
And if I can tell an old-time story now about a man who is walking about, waudjoset ndatlokugan, a forest lodge man, alesakamigwi udlagwedewugan, it is because I spent many years walking about myself, listening to voices that came not just from the people but from animals and trees and stones.”
Joseph Bruchac
I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair โฆ
Because in those moments I start to think that I will never be capable of beginning to live a real life; because I have already begun to think that I have lost all sense of proportion, all sense of the real and the actual; because, what is more, I have cursed myself; because my nights of fantasy are followed by hideous moments of sobering!
And all the time one hears the human crowd swirling and thundering around one in the whirlwind of life, one hears, one sees how people liveโthat they live in reality, that for them life is not something forbidden, that their lives are not scattered for the winds like dreams or visions but are forever in the process of renewal, forever young, and that no two moments in them are ever the same; while how dreary and monotonous to the point of being vulgar is timorous fantasy, the slave of shadow, of the idea…”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “White Nights”
“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future.
We have no present.
Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation.
We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience.
We are therefore out of touch with reality.
We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is.
We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.”
Alan Wilson Watts
“Enjoy life.
There’s plenty of time to be dead.”
Hans Christian Andersen
“I lied and said I was busy. I was busy; but not in a way most people understand.
I was busy taking deeper breaths. I was busy silencing irrational thoughts. I was busy calming a racing heart. I was busy telling myself I am okay.
Sometimes, this is my busy – and I will not apologize for it.”
Brittin Oakman
“Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the human mind.
No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our livesโworse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over.
No person hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our lives!
Weโre tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.”
Seneca, “On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It”
“Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency.
No one is rich, no one is poor, we’ve got 24 hours each.”
Christopher Rice
…unfortunately, it’s true: time does heal.
It will do so whether you like it or not, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
If you’re not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it with knowledge.
Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience.
Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more comprehensible language.
The individual events of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you will never again have the original moment back in its uncategorized, preprocessed state.
It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.”
Charles Yu, “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe”
“Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Be fair or foul, or rain or shine the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”
Horace
“Sometimes when I meet old friends, it reminds me how quickly time passes.
And it makes me wonder if we’ve utilized our time properly or not.
Proper utilization of time is so important.
While we have this body, and especially this amazing human brain, I think every minute is something precious.
Our day-to-day existence is very much alive with hope, although there is no guarantee of our future.
There is no guarantee that tomorrow at this time we will be here.
But we are working for that purely on the basis of hope.
So, we need to make the best use of our time.
I believe that the proper utilization of time is this: if you can, serve other people, other sentient beings.
If not, at least refrain from harming them. I think that is the whole basis of my philosophy.
So, let us reflect what is truly of value in life, what gives meaning to our lives, and set our priorities on the basis of that.
The purpose of our life needs to be positive.
We weren’t born with the purpose of causing trouble, harming others.
For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualitiesโwarmth, kindness, compassion.
Then our life becomes meaningful and more peacefulโhappier.”
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A drop of Wisdom in an ocean of Ignorance, Stupidity, Mediocrity and Madness, that this world has become lately copฤcel… Sad…
May these quotes from bright minds all over the planet guide you and bring a ray of light on Your path !
From Papi with ๐งก Love ๐งก
Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill was an American author in the area of the new thought movement who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature.
He is widely considered to be one of the great writers on success.
His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich (1937), is one of the best-selling books of all time (at the time of Hill’s death in 1970, Think and Grow Rich had sold 20 million copies).
Hill’s works examined the power of personal beliefs, and the role they play in personal success.
He became an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1936. “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve” is one of Hill’s hallmark expressions.
How achievement actually occurs, and a formula for it that puts success in reach of the average person, were the focal points of Hill’s books.
” The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE.
Keep this constantly in mind.
Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Desire
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
The Mind
” You are the master of your destiny.
You can influence, direct and control your own environment.
You can make your life what you want it to be. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
The Master of your destiny
” When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Defeat
” Do not wait: the time will never be ‘just right’.
Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along. “
Napoleon Hill
Time will never be just right’
” When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. “
Napoleon Hill
Desires and superhuman powers
” A quitter never wins and a winner never quits. “
Napoleon Hill
Quitter vs. Winner
” The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does. “
Napoleon Hill
More than you’re paid
” Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds. “
Napoleon Hill
Limitations
” Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Happiness
” An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge.
An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
An educated man
” Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
The Seed
” More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth it self. “
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Mind gold
” A goal is a dream with a deadline. “
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Goal
” Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth.
Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them.
If you are influenced by “opinions” when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking. “
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Opinions…cheapest commodities on earth !
” We refuse to believe that which we don’t understand. “
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Refuse to believe…
” You are entitled to know that two entities occupy your body.
One of these entities is motivated by and responds to the impulse of fear.
The other is motivated by and responds to the impulse of faith.
Will you be guided by faith or will you allow fear to overtake you? “
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Fear
” Remember that your dominating thoughts attract, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart.
Be careful what your thoughts
dwell upon. “
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Law of Nature
” IF – and this is the greatest of them all – I had the courage to see myself as I really am, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them. “
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Courage to see thyself
” First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality.
The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. “
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Imagination
” The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun.
Itโs the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun. “
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Strongest oak
” Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat. “
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Weak desires
” In parting, I would remind you that โLife is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time.
If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time.
You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate decisions! “
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Life is a checkboard
” Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. “
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Persistance
” A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him. “
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Genius
” Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their
lives.”
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Broaden your view
” If you are not learning while youโre earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation. “
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Learning while you’re earning
” Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. “
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Silence
” One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.
Love is whimsical and temperamental. Its nature is ephemeral, and transitory.
It comes when it pleases,and goes away without warning.
Accept and enjoy it while it remains, but spend no time worrying about its departure.
Worry will never bring it back. “
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Love
” TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.
This is the equivalent of saying “deeds, and not words, are what count most. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
” Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they “arrive”.
The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their “other selves”. “
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The turning point
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
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One step beyond your greatest failure
” Awake, arise,and assert yourself,
you dreamers of the world.
Your star is now in ascendancy. “
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Dreamers of the world
” Most so called FAILURES are only temporary defeats. “
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Temporary defeats
” Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. “
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Effort and reward
” Fears are nothing more than
a state of mind. “
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Fears
” Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be. “
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The mind
” You are entitled to know that two entities occupy your body.
One of these entities is motivated by and responds to the impulse of fear.
The other is motivated by and responds to the impulse of faith.
Will you be guided by faith or will you allow fear to overtake you? “
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Faith vs Fear
” The only limitation is that which one sets up in one’s own mind. “
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Limitation
” Every man is what he is, because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind. “
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Dominating thoughts
” There is no substitute for persistence.
The person who makes persistence his watch-word, discovers that โOld Man Failureโ finally becomes tired, and makes his departure.
Failure cannot cope with persistence. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Persistance
” The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.”
And
“A man whose mind is filled with fear not only destroys his own chances of intelligent action, but he transmits these destructive vibrations to the minds of all who come in contact with him, and destroys, also, their chances.”
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Mind busy with definite purpose
” Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. “
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3 P’s
“Success requires no explanations.
Failure permits no alibis.”
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Success
” He had nothing to start with, except the capacity to know what he wanted, and the determination to stand by that desire until he realized it. “
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Determination and Desire
” Nature will not tolerate idleness or vacuums of any sort.
All space must be and is filled with something . . .
When the individual does not use the brain for the expression of positive, creative thoughts, nature fills the vacuum by forcing the brain to act upon negative thoughts.
Napoleon Hill – “Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success”
Nature
” Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap one through โopinionsโ and sometimes through ridicule, which is meant to be humorous.
Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through โopinionsโ or ridicule. “
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Opinions
” If you must be careless with your possessions, let it be in connection with material things.
Your mind is your spiritual estate!
Protect and use it with the care to which Divine Royalty is entitled.
You were given a WILL-POWER for this purpose. “
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Your mind is your spiritual estate
” Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act for yourself. “
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Company of people who influence you
” Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude.
If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you canโt. “
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Worthwhile objective
” Failure always is a blessing when it forces one to acquire knowledge or to build habits that lead to the achievement of oneโs major purpose in life. “
Napoleon Hill – “Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success”
Failure
” All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.
Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth. “
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Imagination – the workshop of your mind
“Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application towards some worthy end.”
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Knowledge
” The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. “
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Ladder of success
” There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy.
It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION! “
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Lack of Ambition
“One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.”
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Temporary defeat
” Love is essential for happiness, but the person who loves so deeply that his or her happiness is placed entirely in the hands of another, resembles the little lamb who crept into the den of the nice, gentle little wolf and begged to be permitted to lie down and go to sleep, or the canary. “
Napoleon Hill – “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons”
Love
” The leaders in every walk of life decide quickly, and firmly.
That is the major reason why they are leaders.
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going. “
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Know where you’re going
” ASK any wise man what he most desires and he will, more than likely, say “more wisdom. “
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More Wisdom
” You have a brain and mind of your own.
Use it, and reach your own decisions. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
You have a brain…Use it!
Thoughts are things,” and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire…
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Thoughts are things
” Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.”
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No retreat
” The mind has a definite way of clothing one’s thoughts in appropriate physical equivalents.
Think in terms of poverty and you will live in poverty.
Think in terms of opulence and you will attract opulence.
Through the eternal law of harmonious attraction, one’s thoughts always clothe themselves in material things appropriate unto their nature. “
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The Mind
” No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher. “
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Every man is your teacher
” INSUFFICIENT EDUCATION.
This is a handicap that may be overcome with comparative ease.
Experience has proven that the best-educated people are often those who are known as โself-madeโ or self-educated.
It takes more than a university degree to make one a person of education.
Any person who is educated has learned to get whatever they want in life without violating the rights of others.
Education consists not so much of knowledge, but of knowledge effectively and persistently applied.
People are paid not merely for what they know, but more particularly for what they do with what they know. “
Napoleon Hill – “Think and Grow Rich”
Self-Education
” Then accumulated knowledge is not wisdom?
A Great heavens, no!
If knowledge were wisdom, the achievements of science would not have been converted into implements of destruction. “
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Knowledge vs Wisdom
” The entire world is made up of only two things, energy and matter.
In elementary physics we learn that neither matter nor energy (the only two realities known to man) can be created nor destroyed.
Both matter and energy can be transformed, but neither can be destroyed.
Life is energy, if it is anything.
If neither energy nor matter can be destroyed, of course life cannot be destroyed.
Life, like other forms of energy, may be passed through various processes of transition, or change, but it cannot be destroyed.
Death is mere transition.
If death is not mere change, or transition, then nothing comes after death except a long, eternal, peaceful sleep, and sleep is nothing to be feared.
Thus you may wipe out, forever, the fear of Death. “
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Fear of Death
” ‘Master Mind’, meaning a mind that is developed through the harmonious co-operation of two or more people who ally themselves for the purpose of accomplishing any given task. “
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“Master Mind”
” KNOWLEDGE will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical PLANS OF ACTION, to the DEFINITE END of accumulation of money.
Lack of understanding of this fact has been the source of confusion to millions of people who falsely believe that “knowledge is power.”
It is nothing of the sort!
Knowledge is only potential power.
It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end. “
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