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Success in life is not for those who run fast, but for those who keep running and always on the move.
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Bangambiki Habyarimana (Pearls Of Eternity)
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Don't live the same day over and over again and call that a life. Life is about evolving mentally, spiritually, and emotionally.
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Germany Kent
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Act as if it was, and it will be.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you’re behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
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Arthur Ashe
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She Knows three things:
(a) that men are less treacherous than women;
(b) that they never notice what a woman is wearing because
they're always mentally undressing her,
(c) that as long as you've got breasts,thighs,buttocks and belly in
good trim, you can conquer the world.
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Paulo Coelho (The Winner Stands Alone)
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Without being push to the wall, we will have remained in our comfortable zone. But this circumstance challenges us to find the courage to move on.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (On Eagles Wings:Rise)
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The success of a strategy largely depends on it's implementation. You can have a good strategy, you can have a winning game plan, but ultimately you and your team have to implement the strategy and execute and put the game plan into action if your business is going to succeed.
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Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
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Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier & healthier life.
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Germany Kent
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Take a few minutes out of your schedule every now and then and remind yourself why you can achieve your goals. Make sure that your brain is getting enough training in seeing you and your business as a success and as a winner and not as a failure.
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Pooja Agnihotri (17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure)
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You don't need to work hard to earn an empire; there is an army of slaves to do it for you.
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Bangambiki Habyarimana (Pearls Of Eternity)
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An entrepreneur is a man who knows he can fail, but he does not accept to fail before he actually fails, and when he fails he learns from his errors and moves on.
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Bangambiki Habyarimana (Pearls Of Eternity)
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Magic always happens when you direct your inner powers to the object you want to change.
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Bangambiki Habyarimana (Pearls Of Eternity)
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We can only reach the highest height, if we encourage each other.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
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Arthur Ashe
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Never seek to please anyone. Seek to evolve thyself.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Let the sun go down on you like King Harold at the battle of Hastings — fighting gloriously. Maybe a loser but what a loser! Greater in defeat than the conqueror. Certainly not a coward that rusted out lurking in his tent.
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Zora Neale Hurston (A Life in Letters)
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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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Success sits on a mountain of mistakes
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Bangambiki Habyarimana (The Great Pearl of Wisdom)
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The best winners are the worst losers.
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Habeeb Akande
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Challenges are part of life;
We weaken our spirit, when we act in fear and lose hope.
But we strengthen our spirit, when we fearlessly with faith and hope, rise up to meet and conquer the challenges.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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For people with a winner mentality, there’s a positive waiting for you no matter the outcome. For those with a loser mentality, if there’s a negative outcome anywhere along the way, you perceive that you’ve lost. That’s why I always say winning and losing isn’t an event; it’s a mind-set.
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Chip Gaines (Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff)
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The strength of every individual is the grace for great work.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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To be a winner, all you need to do is refuse to accept reasons to fail.
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Meir Ezra
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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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Sometimes it's hard for the human body to understand the difference between mental and physical exertion, between being out of breath because you've been running, and because you're having a panic attack.
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Fredrik Backman (The Winners (Beartown, #3))
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Think you're a slave and you'll find a master; think you're a master and slaves will find you
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Bangambiki Habyarimana (The Great Pearl of Wisdom)
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With confidence, you have won before you have started.
So, never get diverted from your path that ultimately opens the doors of true success.
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Mangesh Kumar Panwar
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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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Times of adversity are golden moments.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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I intend to achieve my goals during my lifetime, but if I fail, I will not rest even in the afterlife
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Bangambiki Habyarimana (The Great Pearl of Wisdom)
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If success is a miracle then you must be the miracle worker
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Bangambiki Habyarimana (The Great Pearl of Wisdom)
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You must endure long enough to be victorious.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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You know you're winning when You are not whining. You're simply shining!
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Ana Claudia Antunes (A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job)
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The most successful men work smart, not hard
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Bangambiki Habyarimana (The Great Pearl of Wisdom)
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I am empowered by every problem to seek the power of God.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Don't fear mistakes, they are your stepping stone to success
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Bangambiki Habyarimana (The Great Pearl of Wisdom)
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Winning doesn’t have to be at someone’s expense.
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Frank Sonnenberg (Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life)
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The greater the obstacles, the greater the victory.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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Winning is not about a single game. It's about repeated performance over a long haul. Winners never give up, never accept defeat, and work as long and as hard as it takes to get the job done right. They say, "Don't tell me why I can't do it. Tell me how I can get it done" You have the winner's DNA...take massive action and never give up!
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Farshad Asl
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Let them write you off, let other's say you are finished but if you believe in your self, if you are willing to put in the work you can and you will overcome.
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Sope Agbelusi
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Winners make the effort while losers make excuses.
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Frank Sonnenberg (Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life)
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Think like a winner.
Speak like a winner.
Walk like a winner.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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You don't have to finish today, what is important is that you finish. But remember today might be the last day of your life.
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Bangambiki Habyarimana (The Great Pearl of Wisdom)
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We must work together on a common vision and a common goal.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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The road to your success is not a highway. You have to create it as you go
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Bangambiki Habyarimana (The Great Pearl of Wisdom)
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Failure is an opportunity to learn again
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Bangambiki Habyarimana (The Great Pearl of Wisdom)
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Run the race of life with all perseverance and endurance.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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What needs to be done must be done. With grace, it will be done.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Definite purpose, absolute commitment.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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We held on to great memories. This sustains us in every moment.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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I find comfort in numbers and that is number one
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Mark Maish
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Winners will take what they know and share it with others.
The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
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Anonymous
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You will never achieve a goal by definition unless you try.
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Oscar Auliq-Ice
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It is sheer madness sometimes, but often, madness is needed to separate the winners from the losers.
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Ari Gunzburg (The Little Book of Greatness: A Parable About Unlocking Your Destiny)
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Nothing else will show your true character than how you lose
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Ken Gleed (Life...Intercepted!: Life Changing Lessons Learned From Moments of Failure)
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You must have a vivid imagination of what you seek.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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Faith gives you confidence, strength and hope; vital for any accomplishment
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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If you accept failure, then you will identify with being defeated.
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Tariq Nasheed (Foundational Black American Race Baiter: My Journey Into Understanding Systematic Racism)
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THE IMPORTANCE OF CHUNKING “Mathematics is amazingly compressible: you may struggle a long time, step by step, to work through the same process or idea from several approaches. But once you really understand it and have the mental perspective to see it as a whole, there is often a tremendous mental compression. You can file it away, recall it quickly and completely when you need it, and use it as just one step in some other mental process. The insight that goes with this compression is one of the real joys of mathematics.”26 —William Thurston, winner of the Fields Medal, the top award in mathematics
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Barbara Oakley (A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra))
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Winners don’t think defeat. They think victory.
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Benjamin Suulola
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Success goes with you when you go an extra mile.
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Nazim Ambalath
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Some people just win, while others win with indelible styles. Don’t just dream to win; dare to be remain a winner!
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Israelmore Ayivor (You Can Rise)
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We travel with our thoughts to great lands.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.” – Samuel Smiles
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Jones Lee (Mental Toughness: Develop a Winner's Mindset And Conquer Success (Gain Incredible Self Confidence, Motivation & True Discipline))
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I have no control over time. I can only live in the time.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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If you want to be extremely important in people's lives, give them extremely good services they can't find anywhere else
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Bangambiki Habyarimana (The Great Pearl of Wisdom)
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Nothing great was ever achieved without 100% dedication, discipline and determination.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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I love to challenge myself to greater heights.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
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An entrepreneur is not deterred by his lack of perfection, he knows no one else is
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Bangambiki Habyarimana (Pearls Of Eternity)
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The price of winning is dedication and the price of dedication is concentration. To get any of the two you have to accept to toil for both.
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Oscar Auliq-Ice
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We are strengthening by different experiences in life;
Sad times, happy moments.
Poverty, riches.
Failure, success.
Troubles, good times.
Losing, winning.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Self-confidence will take you places where degrees and money can't. beliefs in self will always make you a winner.
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Micheline Jean Louis
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Winning isn't as sweet if you don't see an enemy cry. But remember, losers wail loud no matter what.
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Ymatruz (The Coffee Cries Foul)
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Destroy the defeat in mind and you will destroy it's existence forever.
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Hiral Nagda
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Don’t check my pulse to know I am dead or alive, check your pulse to know whether you are alive to face me
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P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
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Breaking out of your comfort zone to do the things that are not only difficult but even seemingly impossible, can bring incredible results.
”
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Ken Gleed (Life...Intercepted!: Life Changing Lessons Learned From Moments of Failure)
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Oppression only lasts for a season. Change the way you fight and the way you think so that you are able to break free and walk out of the situation. Correct it and get it right. Do what it takes to win.
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Germany Kent
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In hockey everyone loves talking about players’ heads: you need to have a “winning mind-set,” a “strong head.” If you play hockey as a child you will be told that you need to be “mentally strong,” but very little about what that actually means.
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Fredrik Backman (The Winners (Beartown, #3))
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THE SINGLE WOMAN, far from being a creature to be pitied and patronized, is emerging as the newest glamour girl of our times . . . She is engaging because she lives by her wits. She supports herself. She has had to sharpen her personality and mental resources to a glitter in order to survive in a competitive world and the sharpening looks good. Economically, she is a dream. She is not a parasite, a dependent, a scrounger, a sponger or a bum. She is a giver, not a taker, a winner and not a loser.
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Eric Klinenberg (Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone)
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Limited money and family obligations have never stopped a man who really wanted to do something, although they provide excuses for a man who is not really up to the creative challenge in the first place. Find out today whether you are willing to do what it takes.
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David Deida
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some seem to get trapped in the compulsion to succeed, others take a rebellious stance. Pointing to the blatant cruelties and limitations involved in a cultural pattern which tends to value only the winner and ignore even the positive qualities of the mediocre, they vehemently criticize competition. Among the most vocal are youth who have suffered under competitive pressures imposed on them by parents or society. Teaching these young people, I often observe in them a desire to fail. They seem to seek failure by making no effort to win
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W. Timothy Gallwey (The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance)
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The rest of the family looked on with a bemusement that, in the case of Rafa’s mother, occasionally gave way to anger. His father, Sebastián, had his misgivings. His uncle Rafael wondered sometimes whether Toni was pushing his nephew too hard. His godfather, his mother’s brother, Juan, went so far as to say that what Toni was doing to the child amounted to “mental cruelty.” But Toni was hard on Rafa because he knew Rafa could take it and would eventually thrive. He would not have applied the same principles, he insists, with a weaker child. The sense that perhaps he might have been right was what stopped the more doubtful members of his family from outright rebellion. One who did not doubt Toni was Miguel Ángel, the professional football player. Another disciple of the endurance principle, in which he believes with almost as much reverence as Toni himself, Miguel Ángel says that success for the elite sportsman rests on the capacity “to suffer,” even to enjoy suffering. “It means learning to accept that if you have to train two hours, you train two hours; if you have to train five, you train five; if you have to repeat an exercise fifty thousand times, you do it. That’s what separates the champions from the merely talented. And it’s all directly related to the winners’ mentality; at the same time as you are demonstrating endurance, your head becomes stronger.
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Rafael Nadal (Rafa)
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The metamorphosis of your life begins with your mental appreciation for the cocoon stage of your journey. The adversities, the struggles, the perils of life are what either destroy your motivation or encourage your transformation to become what you were truly born to be. A WINNER!
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DeWayne Owens
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I lost my second judo tournament. I finished second, losing to a girl named Anastasia. Afterward, her coach congratulated me.
"You did a great job. Don't feel bad, Anastasia is a junior national champion."
I felt consoled for about a second, until I noticed the look of disgust on Mom's face. I nodded at the coach and walked away.
Once we were out of earshot she lit into me. "I hope you know better than to believe what he said. You could have won that match. You had every chance to beat that girl. The fact that she is a junior national champion doesn't mean anything. That's why they have tournaments, so you can see who is better. They don't award medals based on what you won before. If you did your absolute best, if you were capable of doing nothing more, then that's enough. Then you can be content with the outcome. But if you could have done better, if you could have done more, then you should be disappointed. You should be upset you didn't win. You should go home and think about what you could have done differently and then next time do it differently. Don't you ever let anyone tell you that not doing your absolute best is good enough. You are a skinny blonde girl who lives by the beach, and unless you absolutely force them to, no one is ever going to expect anything from you in this sport. You prove them wrong.
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Ronda Rousey (My Fight / Your Fight)
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Progress is like wheels that never stop; they have to keep turning in order to remain relevant to a car and all of its mechanical parts. Stopping is not an option in real time but it is to those that envy progress and upward mobility. Progress never ends because it is infinite but it rebuilds and readjust (s) to take small steps then massive steps if it is hindered.
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Terrance Robinson- Artist Educator Scholar Entrepreneur
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Progress is like wheels that never stop; they have to keep turning in order to remain relevant to a car and all of its mechanical parts. Stopping is not an option in real time but it is to those that envy progress and upward mobility. Progress never ends because it is infinite but it rebuilds and readjust (s) to take increment steps then massive steps if it is hindered.
- Terrance Robinson
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Terrance Robinson- Artist Educator Scholar Entrepreneur
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That man doesn't know how to fail and that's his greatest weakness. You see, and always remember this, there are two things you need to know how to do in life : Firstly, you need to know how to win, secondly, you need to know how to fail beautifully. You need to know how to fail so beautifully, that it looks just like winning! These two things, you hear? But that man only knows how to win and when you don't know how to fail, you miss some of the best turns in life. You see, the best places we end up in are from the wrong turns we took on the trips to where we thought we needed to go! You get lost on the map, at the race, and you end up in places you thought you'd never be: those are always the best stories. But you'll never have that in life if all you know how to do is win, if you don't know how to get lost. You have got to know how to fail, too. You don't wanna be like that man. Part of being a winner, is knowing how to fail beautifully.
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C. JoyBell C.
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Yesterday while I was on the side of the mat next to some wrestlers who were warming up for their next match, I found myself standing side by side next to an extraordinary wrestler.
He was warming up and he had that look of desperation on his face that wrestlers get when their match is about to start and their coach is across the gym coaching on another mat in a match that is already in progress.
“Hey do you have a coach.” I asked him.
“He's not here right now.” He quietly answered me ready to take on the task of wrestling his opponent alone.
“Would you mind if I coached you?”
His face tilted up at me with a slight smile and said. “That would be great.”
Through the sounds of whistles and yelling fans I heard him ask me what my name was.
“My name is John.” I replied.
“Hi John, I am Nishan” he said while extending his hand for a handshake.
He paused for a second and then he said to me: “John I am going to lose this match”.
He said that as if he was preparing me so I wouldn’t get hurt when my coaching skills didn’t work magic with him today.
I just said, “Nishan - No score of a match will ever make you a winner. You are already a winner by stepping onto that mat.”
With that he just smiled and slowly ran on to the mat, ready for battle, but half knowing what the probable outcome would be.
When you first see Nishan you will notice that his legs are frail - very frail. So frail that they have to be supported by custom made, form fitted braces to help support and straighten his limbs.
Braces that I recognize all to well.
Some would say Nishan has a handicap.
I say that he has a gift.
To me the word handicap is a word that describes what one “can’t do”.
That doesn’t describe Nishan.
Nishan is doing.
The word “gift” is a word that describes something of value that you give to others.
And without knowing it, Nishan is giving us all a gift.
I believe Nishan’s gift is inspiration.
The ability to look the odds in the eye and say “You don’t pertain to me.”
The ability to keep moving forward.
Perseverance.
A “Whatever it takes” attitude.
As he predicted, the outcome of his match wasn’t great.
That is, if the only thing you judge a wrestling match by is the actual score. Nishan tried as hard as he could, but he couldn’t overcome the twenty-six pound weight difference that he was giving up to his opponent on this day in order to compete. You see, Nishan weighs only 80 pounds and the lowest weight class in this tournament was 106. Nishan knew he was spotting his opponent 26 pounds going into every match on this day. He wrestled anyway.
I never did get the chance to ask him why he wrestles, but if I had to guess I would say, after watching him all day long, that Nishan wrestles for the same reasons that we all wrestle for.
We wrestle to feel alive, to push ourselves to our mental, physical and emotional limits - levels we never knew we could reach.
We wrestle to learn to use 100% of what we have today in hopes that our maximum today will be our minimum tomorrow. We wrestle to measure where we started from, to know where we are now, and to plan on getting where we want to be in the future. We wrestle to look the seemingly insurmountable opponent right in the eye and say, “Bring it on. - I can take whatever you can dish out.”
Sometimes life is your opponent and just showing up is a victory.
You don't need to score more points than your opponent in order to accomplish that.
No Nishan didn’t score more points than any of his opponents on this day, that would have been nice, but I don’t believe that was the most important thing to Nishan. Without knowing for sure - the most important thing to him on this day was to walk with pride like a wrestler up to a thirty two foot circle, have all eyes from the crowd on him, to watch him compete one on one against his opponent - giving it all that he had. That is what competition is all about. Most of the times in wrestlin
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JohnA Passaro
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Not for Fun, Why so Hilarious? [Part 3]
If someone wants you to be bad, you have every right to make him feel bad;
If someone wants you to bend, you have every right to make him to take you a bow;
If someone wants to lock you, you have every right to keep his key with you;
If someone wants to shout at you, you have every right to slip your tongue with him;
If someone wants to disbelief you, you have every right to cheat him;
If someone wants to blop you, you have every right to make him clap for you;
If someone wants to know your potent, you have every right to make him impotent;
If someone wants to slap you, you have every right to make his mind block;
If someone wants to make you weak, you have every right to pull him down;
If someone wants to point at you, you have every right to cut his tail;
If someone wants to define you, you have every right to refine him;
If someone wants to enmity you, you have every right to make him die for you;
If someone wants to threaten you, you have every right to disclose his secrets;
If someone wants to play with your bad time, you have every right to make him as your comedy time;
If someone wants to scold you, you have every right to talk with him in your mother slang;
If someone wants to see your downfall, you have every right to fuck him off;
If someone wants to kill you, you have every right to fix his funeral;
Afterall, our life is full of air with a body full of hair …. !!!
‘Indian Shakespeare
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P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
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Securing Legal Assist in a Motorcycle Accident
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The quality of our thinking is largely influenced by the mental models in our heads. While we want accurate models, we also want a wide variety of models to uncover what’s really happening. The key here is variety. Most of us study something specific and don’t get exposure to the big ideas of other disciplines. We don’t develop the multidisciplinary mindset that we need to accurately see a problem. And because we don’t have the right models to understand the situation, we overuse the models we do have and use them even when they don’t belong.
You’ve likely experienced this first hand. An engineer will often think in terms of systems by default. A psychologist will think in terms of incentives. A business person might think in terms of opportunity cost and risk-reward. Through their disciplines, each of these people sees part of the situation, the part of the world that makes sense to them. None of them, however, see the entire situation unless they are thinking in a multidisciplinary way. In short, they have blind spots. Big blind spots. And they’re not aware of their blind spots.
[...]
Relying on only a few models is like having a 400-horsepower brain that’s only generating 50 horsepower of output. To increase your mental efficiency and reach your 400-horsepower potential, you need to use a latticework of mental models. Exactly the same sort of pattern that graces backyards everywhere, a lattice is a series of points that connect to and reinforce each other. The Great Models can be understood in the same way—models influence and interact with each other to create a structure that can be used to evaluate and understand ideas.
[...]
Without a latticework of the Great Models our decisions become harder, slower, and less creative. But by using a mental models approach, we can complement our specializations by being curious about how the rest of the world works. A quick glance at the Nobel Prize winners list show that many of them, obviously extreme specialists in something, had multidisciplinary interests that supported their achievements.
[...]
The more high-quality mental models you have in your mental toolbox, the more likely you will have the ones needed to understand the problem. And understanding is everything. The better you understand, the better the potential actions you can take. The better the potential actions, the fewer problems you’ll encounter down the road. Better models make better decisions.
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Shane Parrish (The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts)
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The opponent seemed to shift slightly in the seat. His index finger tapped a card, just a couple strokes. There it was the card that ruined his hand. Her hazel eyes release the player across from her to steal a glance registering the emotion of observers around the table then to her best friend. Sophie looks like a Nervous Nelly-she, always worries. She knows the girl will put too much emphasis on a lost hand. The striking man with his lusty brown eyes tries to draw Sophie closer. Now that he has folded and left the game, he is unnecessary, and the seasoned flirt easily escapes his reach. He leaves with a scowl; Sophie turns and issues knowing wink. Ell’s focus is now unfettered, freeing her again to bring down the last player. When she wins this hand, she will smile sweetly, thank the boys for their indulgence, and walk away $700 ahead. The men never suspected her; she’s no high roller. She realizes she and Sophie will have to stay just a bit. Mill around and pay homage to the boy’s egos. The real trick will be leaving this joint alone without one of them trying to tag along. Her opponent is taking his time; he is still undecided as to what card to keep—tap, tap. He may not know, but she has an idea which one he will choose. He attempts to appear nonchalant, but she knows she has him cornered. She makes a quick glance for Mr. Lusty Brown-eyes; he has found a new dame who is much more receptive than Sophie had been. Good, that small problem resolved itself for them. She returns her focuses on the cards once more and notes, her opponent’s eyes have dilated a bit. She has him, but she cannot let the gathering of onlookers know. She wants them to believe this was just a lucky night for a pretty girl. Her mirth finds her eyes as she accepts his bid.
From a back table, there is a ruckus indicating the crowd’s appreciation of a well-played game as it ends. Reggie knew a table was freeing up, and just in time, he did not want to waste this evening on the painted and perfumed blonde dish vying for his attention. He glances the way of the table that slowly broke up. He recognizes most of the players and searches out the winner amongst them. He likes to take on the victor, and through the crowd, he catches a glimpse of his goal, surprised that he had not noticed her before. The women who frequent the back poker rooms in speakeasies all dress to compete – loud colors, low bodices, jewelry which flashes in the low light. This dame faded into the backdrop nicely, wearing a deep gray understated yet flirty gown. The minx deliberately blended into the room filled with dark men’s suits. He chuckles, thinking she is just as unassuming as can be playing the room as she just played those patsies at the table. He bet she had sat down all wide-eyed with some story about how she always wanted to play cards. He imagined she offered up a stake that wouldn’t be large but at the same time, substantial enough. Gauging her demeanor, she would have been bold enough to have the money tucked in her bodice. Those boys would be eager after she teased them by retrieving her stake. He smiled a slow smile; he would not mind watching that himself. He knew gamblers; this one was careful not to call in the hard players, just a couple of marks, which would keep the pit bosses off her. He wants to play her; however, before he can reach his goal, the skirt slips away again, using her gray camouflage to aid her. Hell, it is just as well, Reggie considered she would only serve as a distraction and what he really needs is the mental challenge of the game not the hot release of some dame–good or not.
Off in a corner, the pit boss takes out a worn notepad, his meaty hands deftly use a stub of a pencil to enter the notation. The date and short description of the two broads quickly jotted down for his boss Mr. Deluca. He has seen the pair before, and they are winning too often for it to be accidental or to be healthy.
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Caroline Walken (Ell's Double Down (The Willows #1))
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The winner in sports does not only have physical abilities but unique mental abilities
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Sunday Adelaja (The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century)
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Set your mind for victory
You may not realize it, but that’s setting the tone for defeat, for failure, for a lousy day. The first thing you should do is get your mind going in the right direction. This is why many people don’t have enough energy, joy, vision, or passion. Their minds are set on the negative. It’s been that way so long they don’t know any better. It’s normal to them.
They go through the day expecting problems, bad breaks, to barely get by, and to be mistreated. They live by Murphy’s Law, which says, “If anything can go wrong, it will, and at the worst possible time. Things will take longer than you thought. It will be more difficult than it seems.”
Because these people haven’t set their minds, they expect negative things to happen. They wonder why they have such a tough time, and why they can’t get ahead. It’s because they’re setting their minds for defeat, for bad breaks, for failure.
If you have fallen into that negative mind-set, you’ve got to change your outlook. You are a child of the most high God. You’ve been crowned with favor. You were never created to live an average, get-by, short-end-of-the-stick life. You were created to be the head and not the tail, to lend and not borrow, to reign in life as a king. You have royalty in your blood. Winning is in your DNA.
Now get rid of that negative mentality, and set your mind for victory. Set your mind for increase. Set your mind for good breaks. Start expecting your plans to work out. Expect people to be good to you. Expect to have a productive day.
If it doesn’t happen, don’t fall back into that old negative mentality by thinking things like: “I should have known it would not work out for me. I never get good breaks. I never find a good parking spot. These people never treat me right. It always takes me longer than anyone else.
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Joel Osteen (You Can You Will: 8 Undeniable Qualities of a Winner)
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You are not a victim. You’re a victor. You wouldn’t have opposition if there were not something amazing in your future. Keep a smile on your face. Keep a spring in your step. Stay positive. Stay hopeful. God is still on the throne.
Being sour, negative, and pessimistic, and expecting the worst, will keep you from your destiny. You may have had a lot of negative, unfair things happen in your past, but don’t let that become a stronghold, or a mind-set where you think that’s all there’s ever going to be. Don’t live with that negative mentality.
If God showed you all He has planned for you, it would boggle your mind. If you could see the doors He’s going to open, the opportunities that will cross your path, and the people who will show up, you’d be so amazed, excited, and passionate, it would be easy to set your mind for victory.
This is what faith is all about. You got to believe it before you see it. God’s favor is surrounding you like a shield. Every setback is a setup for a comeback. Every bad break, every disappointment, and every person who does you wrong is part of the plan to get you to where you’re supposed to be.
Don’t fall into the trap of being negative, complacent, or just taking whatever life brings your way. Set the tone for victory, for success, for new levels. Enlarge your vision. Make room for God to do something new. You haven’t touched the surface of what He has in store.
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Joel Osteen (You Can You Will: 8 Undeniable Qualities of a Winner)
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You should focus on what you can change, not what you cannot change. What’s done is done. If somebody offended you, mistreated you, or disappointed you, the hurts can’t be undone. You can get bitter--pack it in a bag and carry it around and let it weigh you down--or you can forgive those who hurt you and go on.
If you lost your temper yesterday, you can beat yourself up--put the guilt and condemnation in a bag--or you can ask for forgiveness, receive God’s mercy, and do better today.
If you didn’t get a promotion you wanted, you can get sour and go around with a chip on your shoulder, or you can shake it off, knowing that God has something better in store.
No matter what happens, big or small, if you make the choice to let it go and move forward, you won’t let the past poison your future.
A woman I know went through a divorce years ago. We prayed several times in our services, asking God to bring a good man into her life. One day she met a fine Godly man, who was very successful. She was so happy, but she made the mistake of carrying all her negative baggage from her divorce into the new relationship. She was constantly talking about what she had been through and how she was so mistreated.
She had a victim mentality. The man told me later that she was so focused on her past and so caught up in what she had been through that he just couldn’t deal with it. He moved on. That’s what happens when we hold on to the hurts and pains of the past. It will poison you wherever you go. You can’t drag around all the personal baggage from yesterday and expect to have good relationships. You’ve got to let it go.
Quit looking at the little rearview mirror and start looking out the great big windshield in front of you. You may have had some bad breaks, but that didn’t stop God’s plan for your life. He still has amazing things in your future.
When one door closes, stay in faith and God will open another door. If a dream dies, don’t sit around in self-pity talking about what you lost, move forward and dream another dream. Your life is not over because you lost a loved one, went through a divorce, lost a job, or didn’t get the house you wanted. You would not be alive unless God had another victory in front of you.
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Joel Osteen (You Can You Will: 8 Undeniable Qualities of a Winner)
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Winners think and talk in the same direction, not in the contrary. When your thinking does not align with your talking, failure is inevitable.
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Benjamin Suulola
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Winners evaluates situations, make right decisions and then take prompt and vigorous action.
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Benjamin Suulola
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The men were thorough sportsmen, loving horse-racing, foot-racing, and gambling. They were graceful winners, and good losers in games of chance. And they were firm believers in luck, and in the medicine conferred in dreams. Men often starved, and even tortured themselves, in preparation for desired medicine-dreams. Then, weakened both physically and mentally by enervating sweat-baths and fatigue, they slipped away alone to some dangerous spot, usually a high mountain-peak, a sheer cliff or a well-worn buffalo-trail that might be traveled at any hour by a vast herd of buffalo; and here, without food, or water, they spent four days and nights (if necessary) trying to dream, appealing to invisible “helpers,” crying aloud to the winds until utter exhaustion brought them sleep, or unconsciousness—and perhaps a medicine-dream. If lucky, some animal or bird appeared to the dreamer, offering counsel and help, nearly always prescribing rules which if followed would lead the dreamer to success in war. Thereafter the bird or animal appearing in the medicine-dream was the dreamer’s medicine. He believed that all the power, the cunning, and the instinctive wisdom, possessed by the appearing bird or animal would forever afterward be his own in time of need. And always thereafter the dreamer carried with him some part of such bird or animal. It was his lucky-piece, a talisman, and he would undertake nothing without it upon his person.
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Frank Bird Linderman (Blackfeet Indians)
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If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
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Donny Ingram (Daily Thoughts for Success)