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There is nothing either ' good or bad ' but ' thinking ' makes it so. It is the "perception" that makes things what they are. Good and bad is in our mind. It is our mindset, our mental attitude that determines how we will interpret and respond to situations.
Erik pevernagie - ("Is that all there is ?")
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Erik Pevernagie
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Life has a tendency to provide a person with what they need in order to grow. Our beliefs, what we value in life, provide the roadmap for the type of life that we experience. A period of personal unhappiness reveals that our values are misplaced and we are on the wrong path. Unless a person changes their values and ideas, they will continue to experience discontentment.
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Kilroy J. Oldster (Dead Toad Scrolls)
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Positive thinking is powerful thinking. If you want happiness, fulfillment, success and inner peace, start thinking you have the power to achieve those things. Focus on the bright side of life and expect positive results.
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Germany Kent
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Our thoughts shape us. We become our obsessions. Our thoughts can enslave us or save us.
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Kilroy J. Oldster (Dead Toad Scrolls)
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The victory over our inner self is a daily struggle. Be strong and do not give up.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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You have to prepare physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually to conquer any mountain.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Don’t fight with narrow minded people; be determined to compel them to change their mindsets about who you stand to be, not by arguments, but by focusing on what you do every day. If they change it, fine; if they don’t, fine. The good news is that you are pursuing excellence!
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Israelmore Ayivor (The Great Hand Book of Quotes)
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Your words control your life, your progress, your results, even your mental and physical health. You cannot talk like a failure and expect to be successful.
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Germany Kent
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You have to choose your path.
You have to decide what you wish to do.
You are the only person that can determine your destiny.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Yes, he was depressed, but he was coping the way people in the growth mindset tend to cope—with determination.
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Carol S. Dweck (Mindset: How You Can Fulfil Your Potential)
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You may encounter many disappointments. Be strong. Tell yourself, “I am good enough, I will try again.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Countless possibilities exist in any situation. You must maintain a positive outlook to see the miraculous possibilities.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Inspiration may come from many places but motivation - the love of life, daily drive and the will to thrive - that must come from you from within
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Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Adversity quickens the mind, awakens the spirit and strength the soul.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Experience informs intuition. But it does more than that: Experience sets the frame within which we analyze and interpret what we perceive. You would no doubt expect, for instance, that the "wild child" raised by a pack of wolves would interpret the world from a perspective that differs substantially from your own. Even less extreme comparisons, such as those between people raised in very different cultural traditions, serve to underscore the degree to which our experiences determine our interpretive mindset.
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Brian Greene (The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory)
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This transformation helped me to become productive and my mindset became focused on change for the better. My identity was the essence of me, and the path without fear was ahead of me as I walked, knowing that happiness, grace, joy, and love were my birthright!
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Charlena E. Jackson (A Woman's Love Is Never Good Enough)
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The ego might resist change until a person’s level of discomfort becomes unbearable. A person can employ logic to overcome the ego’s defense mechanism and intentionally integrate needed revisions in a person’s obsolete or ineffective beliefs and behavior patterns. The subtle sense that something is amiss in a person’s life can lead to a gradual or quick alteration in a person’s conscious thoughts and outlook on life. Resisting change can prolong unhappiness whereas implementing change can establish internal harmony and instate joy in a person’s life.
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Kilroy J. Oldster (Dead Toad Scrolls)
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I've set myself to become the king of the pirates... And if I die trying... then at least I tried!
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Eiichiro Oda (One Piece Box Set, Vol. 1)
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what we feel and think will determine what we experience, which will in turn influence what we feel and what we think, in a never-ending cycle.
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David Robson (The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World)
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Before you accomplish your dreams physically, your inner make up, mindset, emotions and perception have fought the battle mentally and that already determined how the battle will be fought physically.
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Israelmore Ayivor (Shaping the dream)
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There are no regrets in life, only experiences. Every experience helps us to be what we can be.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Positive mindset, positive lifestyle.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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The way you handle fear determines the results you have in life. If you are equipped with knowledge, you can overcome fear
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H.J. Chammas
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Hope kept us alive in the midst of the turbulence.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.
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Carol S. Dweck (Mindset: The New Psychology of Success)
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To develop an armored mind—a mindset so calloused and hard that it becomes bulletproof—you need to go to the source of all your fears and insecurities. Most of us sweep our failures and evil secrets under the rug, but when we run into problems, that rug gets lifted up, and our darkness re-emerges, floods our soul, and influences the decisions which determine our character.
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David Goggins (Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds)
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Life can sometimes get the best of you but your state of mind determines your outcome.
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Sanjo Jendayi
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The mindset you have, determines the next step you take.
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Unarine Ramaru
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Conviction is having the mindset to never doubt your self-understanding
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Gino Norris (Stress Diary Journal)
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Hope is the believe that the promised will be fulfilled.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Life is a teacher. We are the student.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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When we have graciously endured every adversity, we become like a shining diamond.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Every action today will define the future.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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What happens to us are tiny matters compared to us response to any situation.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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I am a great warrior.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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In the darkest time, I have always believed, the light will shine.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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You have to conquer every mountain to fulfill the dream.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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We need to be careful not to fall into the victim mindset. This usually happens because we have a dis-empowering perspective of the circumstance. We forget about “who we are” in Christ and that God is in control.
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Michael Barbarulo
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So, you’ve failed many times at many things. That’s okay! Learn, grow, and move forward. With the right attitude and mindset, you can learn a lot from failure. Pay attention and keep on striving! You’ve got this!
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Stephanie Lahart
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Anything or everything can happen. You determine how good or bad they are
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Constancev Chuks Friday
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Nothing moves unless you are determined to push
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Nicky Verd
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It’s resolving to live with the mind-set that declares, My joy is not determined by what happens to me but by what Christ is doing in me and through me.
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Steven Furtick (Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others)
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5 D's of success -
Dream, Desire, Determination, Discipline and Dedication
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Prakash Vir Sharma (Mindset And Passion)
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Do not quit. Hang on the wings of hope.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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You gain control over any situation with a positive outlook.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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The certainty within our spirit made the dream reality.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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The height of your accomplishments is determined by the depth of your convictions.
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William F. Scolavino
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Ability determines if you can; attitude determines if you will.
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Frank Sonnenberg (Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life)
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Your priorities determine your happiness — place them in order and act on them.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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A person’s outlook on life colors their interpretation of specific events. Human beings’ behavioral and thinking patterns enable people to thrive or cause them to live in despondency and despair.
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Kilroy J. Oldster (Dead Toad Scrolls)
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The mindset of a believer every time he opens the Bible must be the conviction that whatever the Bible says is true. We cannot trust our reason to determine what is true or false, right or wrong.
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Michael P.V. Barrett (Beginning at Moses: A Guide to Finding Christ in the Old Testament)
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You are the author of your own life story. You have the leading role and get to determine how you interact with your supporting cast and other characters. Without realizing it, you may have allowed the events in your life to write your story for you rather than taking deliberate action to write it in your own voice. What will it take to love your life story to create the happy endings you desire?
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Susan C. Young
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Every person is the master of his or her own destiny. What we think about alters our character. Our character organizes our personality, and our personality scripts how successfully we interact with other people and respond to a changing environment.
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Kilroy J. Oldster (Dead Toad Scrolls)
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The more depressed people with the growth mindset felt, the more they took action to confront their problems, the more they made sure to keep up with their schoolwork, and the more they kept up with their lives. The worse they felt, the more determined they became!
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Carol S. Dweck (Mindset: How You Can Fulfil Your Potential)
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The universe responds to our vibrational signals, but the clarity of those signals determines the precision of the response.
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Russ Kyle (Manifestation Mindset: The 12 Universal Laws of Creation)
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Detachment from the outcome frees us from the constraints of our limited perspectives, opening the door to possibilities we may have never imagined.
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Russ Kyle (Manifestation Mindset: The 12 Universal Laws of Creation)
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In any situation you have the choice to stay positive and embrace it with courage, faith, and hope.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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Never allow anyone to stop you from pursuing your most cherished dreams.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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The pursuit of dreams is holy act.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Capture the sacred-thoughts and write it a journal.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Understanding that trauma is personal is crucial. It's not the size of the incident that determines its effect on you. It's how you received/perceived it.
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Danielle Bernock (Because You Matter: How to Take Ownership of Your Life So You Can Really Live)
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If your passion is keeping you in poverty, don’t quit your passionate mindset! Quit your poverty mindset!
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Curtis Tyrone Jones
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Believe in miracles. Believe in endless possibilities.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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The questions you ask determine the reality you create for yourself and others.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Don’t get discouraged or compare yourself to people. Focus on improving yourself each day, slowly but surely.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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You can only have options if you've not been pushed to the wall.
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Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu
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Dear entrepreneurs: Pricing is branding. Branding is a mindset. Your mindset, not the market, determines how much money you make or don’t make. Think about that.
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Richie Norton
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How you talk to yourself, in your head, determines how you feel about yourself, and determines the actions you take.
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Maddy Malhotra (How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy)
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THESE ARE NOT MY FAILURES
THESE ARE THE CERTIFICATES OF MY GRIT
ये मेरी असफलताएं नहीं हैं
ये मेरी ज़िद के प्रमाणपत्र हैं
YEH MERI ASAFALTAYEIN NAHIN HAIN
YEH MERI ZID KE PRAMANPATR HAIN
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Vineet Raj Kapoor
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Epigenetic factors, or factors beyond the control of your genes (such as diet, lifestyle, environmental exposures, and mindset), almost exclusively determine your life-span and quality of life.
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Sayer Ji (Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body's Radical Resilience through the New Biology)
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Your mindset brings together your attitude, perceptions, experience, interpretations, opinions, beliefs, values, and understanding to determine how you think, act, walk, talk, behave, and engage.
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Susan C. Young (The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact (The Art of First Impressions for Positive Impact, #2))
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Reconnect with who you truly are and what you really want rather than letting the outside world determine it for you. Reconnect with your purpose and your passion to know if your actions are helping you to achieve it.
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Susan C. Young
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Leadership in its essence is the capacity to shift the inner place from which we operate. Once they understand how, leaders can build the capacity of their systems to operate differently and to release themselves from the exterior determination of the outer circle. As long as we are mired in the viewpoint of the outer two circles, we are trapped in a victim mind-set (“the system is doing something to me”). As soon as we shift to the viewpoint of the inner two circles, we see how we can make a difference and how we can shape the future differently. Facilitating the movement from one (victim) mind-set to another (we can shape our future) is what leaders get paid for.
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C. Otto Scharmer (Theory U: Learning from the Future as It Emerges)
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It turns out that how you think about stress is also one of those core beliefs that can affect your health, happiness, and success. As we’ll see, your stress mindset shapes everything from the emotions you feel during a stressful situation to the way you cope with stressful events. That, in turn, can determine whether you thrive under stress or end up burned out and depressed. The good news is, even if you are firmly convinced that stress is harmful, you can still cultivate a mindset that helps you thrive.
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Kelly McGonigal (The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You and How to Get Good at It)
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Optimism won’t prevent negative events from happening; optimism will ensure that you respond to those negative events in the most beneficial way possible—a way that leads to positive outcomes. Your mindset determines how you respond to the negative events that will inevitably happen to us all.
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Darrin Donnelly (Relentless Optimism: How a Commitment to Positive Thinking Changes Everything (Sports for the Soul Book 3))
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Our reality is a creation of our perception. Our perception is determined by our mindset.
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Anupama Garg
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Be less focused about making excuses and focus more on making moves.
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Germany Kent
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Most people believe losing everything is the end...I say it is a new beginning.
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Brent Cassity
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Don't ever let someone else's lack of ambition or vision define you.
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Sope Agbelusi
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The questions we ask ourselves, in our head, determine where we focus, how we think, how we feel, and what we decide and do.
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Maddy Malhotra (How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy)
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Go ahead and pursue your God-given dreams.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Your willpower to achieve the goal ought to stronger than any obstacle.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Success is a steadily progress.
You can make steadily progress in all spheres of life.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Keep moving forward in the power of thy might.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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The mysteries of life include the external and the internal conundrums that each person encounters in a world composed of competing ideologies and agents of change. Conflicting ideas include political, social, legal, and ethical concepts. Agents of change include environmental factors, social pressure to conform, aging, and the forces inside us that made us into whom we are as well as the forces compelling us to be a different type of person.
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Kilroy J. Oldster (Dead Toad Scrolls)
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I only like to recommend books that are happy and cheerful. ... I know there are sad things out in the world ... but I just don't want to dwell on them. I just stick my head in the sand. I don't want to face the facts. All the scientists are determined to tell us what the moon is made of and what the stars are ... and why there are rainbows ... but I just don't want to know. When i wish on a star, I don't need to know what it's made of--as for me, when a thing is beautiful what does it matter why? I never get tired of looking at the moon. One night it is small and round as a shiny, ice-cold, white marble and the next it's a big soft yellow moon. How can we be bored when nature gives us so many wonders to look at?
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Fannie Flagg (Standing in the Rainbow (Elmwood Springs, #2))
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Performance cannot be based on one assessment. You cannot determine the slope of a line given only one point, as there is no line to begin with. A single point in time does not show trends, improvement, lack of effort, or mathematical ability.… Sincerely,
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Carol S. Dweck (Mindset: The New Psychology of Success)
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Seventy percent of US companies now use open-plan offices and hot desking in the hope that these free-form physical structures will provoke free-form thinking. This architectural determinism isn’t entirely convincing—there’s plenty of evidence that people find open workspaces noisy, distracting, and impersonal. Walking through several such workspaces recently, I couldn’t help but notice how hard everyone was working to simulate privacy. Plugged into headphones, surrounded by stacks of books and temporary dividers, defensiveness was more evident than openness. Architecture alone won’t change mindsets and tearing down physical walls won’t demolish the mental silos that trap thinking.
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Margaret Heffernan (Beyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes (TED Books))
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You are not at bottom your intellect, this is impossible, although this is the assumption of almost all modern people even when they claim otherwise. They pay lip service to “supremacy of the desires,” or to biological determinism, but they still believe they are their intellects, just imprisoned by flesh and matter and genes and a biological “programming.” This is wrong!
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Bronze Age Pervert (Bronze Age Mindset)
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Transform your mindset with tenacity, tackle challenges head-on, and triumph over obstacles. Today, let's tap into our inner strength, tenacity, and unstoppable spirit. Together, we'll turn every trial into a testimony and every setback into a setup for success.
Trust in your abilities, stay true to your dreams and embrace the journey with unwavering determination. You're capable, tenacious, and destined for greatness!
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Donald Pillai
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You have to be determined on your quest for the fulfilment you need, and while you struggle, living and searching, carry a determined face, heart and spirit more than your inner perseverance.
When you're earnestly searching for a job or something valuable in thriving on this life, let determination be your mindset. Have that creativity, resourceful spirit, inquisitive behaviour and resilience matching your gut to succeed in your search.
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Angelica Hopes (Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul (Speranza Odyssey Trilogy, #1))
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a good set of questions to determine whether a project leader—or even an individual contributor—has an agile mindset might be, "In what specific ways and with what practices do you focus on value first and constraints last?" "In what specific ways and with what practices do you manage teams rather than tasks?" "In what specific ways and with what practices do you adapt to change rather than conform to plans?" Try these out in your organization to get a feel for your agile maturity.
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Jim Highsmith (Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products)
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In a profile of Robert Kennedy, Morgenthau explained how emotion, even in the best of causes, could obscure reason and rationality, and what he said about Kennedy applied to the student demonstrators as well: “Robert Kennedy was not reflective but emotional,” Morgenthau remarked. When he saw evil and suffering in the world, he felt he had to do something. “But since he was unaware of the ambiguity of moral judgments, he was also unaware of the moral and pragmatic ambiguity of the political act performed in emotional response to a moral judgment. His approach was morally fundamentalist and politically simplistic.” Much like the student protesters, many of whom became Kennedy followers after he came to share their passion about the war. Moral fundamentalism and perfectionism were their credo. Emotion, not reflection, determined a policy of resistance that was no-policy. Except for a shared opposition to the Vietnam war, the stern, Nietzschean, hyperintellectual Morgenthau and the idealistic, impassioned students had almost nothing in common. Their intellectual premises barely overlapped; their mind-sets functioned in different universes. As Morgenthau had written in Politics Among Nations, “A man who was nothing but ‘moral man’ would be a fool.” The students were “moral men” and proud of the fact. And then in 1968, as if to pound his point home, Morgenthau took a step that would have been incomprehensible to most of them. He came out in support of Richard Nixon for president.
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Barry Gewen (The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World)
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A person who sets goals is a hopeful person, whereas a person whom fails to achieve their goals might despair. Why do both hope and despair fill my inner world? Who cannot despair when inducted into a world filled with cruelty? Who cannot despair when serving as the serf in a seigneur’s regime that bestows legal and economic power, financial rewards, social status, and related societal prizes upon feudal lords who exhibit the ravenous instinct for power and accumulation of wealth? Who cannot despair when stranded alone with their personal thoughts, unable to imagine a better earthly life, and flooded with uncertainty of a redemptive afterlife? Why would not any person despair his or her failure to etch a mindset that serves to alleviate their present-day suffering?
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Kilroy J. Oldster (Dead Toad Scrolls)
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In a longitudinal study of college students, freshmen were evaluated for fixed mindsets or growth mindsets and then followed across their four years of enrollment. When the students with fixed mindsets encountered academic challenges such as daunting projects or low grades, they gave up, while the students with growth mindsets responded by working harder or trying new strategies. Rather than strengthening their skills and toughening their resolve, four years of college left the students with fixed mindsets feeling less confident. The feelings they most associated with school were distress, shame, and upset. Those with growth mindsets performed better in school overall and, at graduation time, they reported feeling confident, determined, enthusiastic, inspired, and strong.
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Meg Jay (The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now)
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Watch out for these two kind of fears: the fear of God that gives courage and wisdom to overcome the fears in the world and to accomplish your God given mission distinctively, and the fear of the world that gives you excuses and hinders you from fulfilling your God given vision. No matter what, you shall give an account of your stewardship to God Almighty. There is no day like a day to do something in the day, for each day, you get closer to the journey’s end! Feel the urgency to do something as long as you meet a new day! Have a true passion for living to accomplish your true mission! Step out each day like a wounded lion; noble, but not timid; meek, but not weak; courageous, but not proud; wise, but with understanding, and be determined to overcome all obstacles with an unstoppable mindset and wisdom, knowing that God is waiting for you at your journey’s end to print the statement of how you took the journey to you.
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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A 2011 study done by Alan Krueger, a Princeton economics professor who served for two years as the chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, and Stacy Dale, an analyst with Mathematica Policy Research, tried to adjust for that sort of thing. Krueger and Dale examined sets of students who had started college in 1976 and in 1989; that way, they could get a sense of incomes both earlier and later in careers. And they determined that the graduates of more selective colleges could expect earnings 7 percent greater than graduates of less selective colleges, even if the graduates in that latter group had SAT scores and high school GPAs identical to those of their peers at more exclusive institutions. But then Krueger and Dale made their adjustment. They looked specifically at graduates of less selective colleges who had applied to more exclusive ones even though they hadn’t gone there. And they discovered that the difference in earnings pretty much disappeared. Someone with a given SAT score who had gone to Penn State but had also applied to the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school with a much lower acceptance rate, generally made the same amount of money later on as someone with an equivalent SAT score who was an alumnus of UPenn. It was a fascinating conclusion, suggesting that at a certain level of intelligence and competence, what drives earnings isn’t the luster of the diploma but the type of person in possession of it. If he or she came from a background and a mindset that made an elite institution seem desirable and within reach, then he or she was more likely to have the tools and temperament for a high income down the road, whether an elite institution ultimately came into play or not. This was powerfully reflected in a related determination that Krueger and Dale made in their 2011 study: “The average SAT score of schools that rejected a student is more than twice as strong a predictor of the student’s subsequent earnings as the average SAT score of the school the student attended.
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Frank Bruni (Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania)
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Ö Lack of Urgency Arguably the single most significant cause of mediocrity and unfulfilled potential, which prevents 95% of our society from creating and living the life they truly want, is that most people have no sense of urgency to improve themselves so they can improve their lives. Human nature is to live with a “someday” mindset and think life will work itself out. How’s that working out for everybody? This someday mindset is perpetual, and it leads to a life of procrastination, unfulfilled potential and regret. You wake up one day and wonder what the heck happened; how did your life end up like this? How did you end up like this? One of the saddest things in life is to live with regret, knowing that you could have, be, and do so much more. Remember this truth: now matters more than any other time in your life, because it’s what you are doing today that is determining who you’re becoming, and who you’re becoming will always determine the quality and direction of your life. If you don’t make the commitment today to start becoming the person you need to be to create the extraordinary life you really want, what makes you think tomorrow—or next week, or next month, or next year—are going to be any different? They won’t. And that’s why you must draw your line in the sand.
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Hal Elrod (The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life: Before 8AM)
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I believe reincarnation is fundamentally true, even though most of these religions taught it in a metaphorical and popular form called metempsychosis. This is the belief that the soul, the supposed (but false) unity of will and intellect, is fully reborn. This is false. The intellect is a merely physical quality like muscular strength and can’t be “reborn” any more than your muscles are literally reborn. You are not at bottom your intellect, this is impossible, although this is the assumption of almost all modern people even when they claim otherwise. They pay lip service to “supremacy of the desires,” or to biological determinism, but they still believe they are their intellects, just imprisoned by flesh and matter and genes and a biological “programming.” This is wrong! And it’s not the intellect that is reborn, I will tell you what is. Take a fruitfly, or a worker ant. This type of being is very close to plant-life in some ways. It has very primitive intellect, very primitive nervous system. There are inborn ways of behaving, of reacting to certain stimuli, inborn desires and orientations “in the blood,” and when you kill one ant, the next one over will be identical in this regard. Its rebirth is “instantaneous” because the ant has a will that is shared uniformly across its type in the hive, and is therefore persistent and enduring. Once the queen dies, the next queen is indistinguishable from it in that thing that Schopenhauer calls the will, what he says is inborn way of wanting, and is in a very literal sense a “reincarnation” of this same thing.
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Bronze Age Pervert (Bronze Age Mindset)
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The word 'spirit' comes from the Latin root 'spirare' meaning "to breathe", which became the word 'spiritus' meaning "breath". Through Anglo-Norman French, the word became the 'spirit' we know today as "the non-physical part of a person that is the seat of emotions and character; the soul".
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Upon pondering, one could definitely come to the conclusion that we must breathe to live and we live because we breathe. Therefore, the spirit is life itself. It is vitality [...] The spirit is not so much our consciousness as it is our very will to live. With that, it is simply the Will itself. [...] the Will is the spirit of motivation.; of progress; of creativity; of life itself. This spirit has it's own semblance of strength, i.e. it is capable of being "broken" or "uplifted".
What has it been called when someone relinquishes their will to live? Was it, "give up the ghost"? That is a strange way of putting it, to say the least. What is the last thing we will ever do? We will exhale our final breath, thus giving up the ghost; commending the spirit unto Death. The spirit is real. It is a powerful emotional state in which positivity and determination cause the individual (or even an entire group) to strive for victory and greatness. It is the essence of carnality. To be truly spiritual doesn't require belief or existence of an afterlife. For a Satanist, to be 'spiritual' is to have an uncanny force of will to succeed in life that is on par with his own impetus. It is having the mindset of "if one can fathom it, one can achieve it". Do not let anyone break your spirit. It is your very own sense of self, and therefore it is precious. Let your spirit push your Will forward towards what your heart desires, and not allow you to stagnate in wishful thinking and false hope.
John M. Penkal, Truly Satanic Volume I: Satanism
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John M. Penkal