If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.
Criss Jami
If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.
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True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.
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I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.
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When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.
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Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.
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Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.
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The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind.
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When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.
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A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king.
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Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.
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There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.
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The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.
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In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.
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You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.
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