Do What Matters

Words and thoughts that leave a mark.

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When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.

Dalai Lama

@DalaiLama

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The key is not the will to win. Everyone has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

Bobby Knight

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What gives you opportunities is other people doing dumb things. And I'd say that in the fifty-eight years that we've been running Berkshire, there's been a great increase in the number of people doing dumb things.

Warren Buffet

@WarrenBuffett

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No one's really that great. You know who's great? The people that just put tremendous amount of hours into it. It's a game of tonnage.

Jerry Seinfeld

@JerrySeinfeld

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If you're willing to recognize your mistakes, you massively tilt the odds in your favor.

Shane Parrish

@shaneparrish

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Ciò che le persone dicono di te, quasi sempre, è una confessione di come si sentono loro.

Andrea Giuliodori

@EfficaceMente

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L'attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité.

Simone Weil

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Le secret pour être heureux c'est de savoir jouir, jouir à table, jouir au lit, jouir d'être debout, d'être assis, jouir du plus pâle rayon de soleil, du plus mince paysage, c'est-à-dire aimer tout.

Gustave Flaubert

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Everyone wants better results. Skill precedes results. Practice precedes skill. Attitude precedes practice. It's the willingness to try (and keep trying) that leads to ability.

James Clear

@JamesClear

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There are two types of talent: the natural talent you're born with and the chosen talent you earn with your mindset, choices, and work. Natural talent is overrated. Chosen talent is underrated.

Shane Parrish

@shaneparrish

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The day you decide you're in charge of what happens to you, there is suddenly opportunity all around you.

Shane Parrish

@shaneparrish

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Success is not a straight line. It's a squiggly line.

Adam Grant

@AdamMGrant

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Character is not revealed by how many setbacks you face. It's forged by how you face them.

Adam Grant

@AdamMGrant

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Mistakes don't make you a failure. They make you a learner.

Adam Grant

@AdamMGrant

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The purpose of life is not to be happy at all. It is to be useful, to be honorable. It is to be compassionate. It is to matter, to have it make some difference that you lived.

Leo Rosten

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Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success if the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.

Jim Rohn

@OfficialJimRohn

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What we call luck is often not purely random, but rather the delayed byproduct of consistently putting yourself in good positions.

James Clear

@JamesClear

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The person who approaches a problem like an opportunity has an advantage that the person who sees an obstacle will never understand.

Shane Parrish

@shaneparrish

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Getting what you want out of life largely boils down to the story you tell yourself and where you direct your attention.

James Clear

@JamesClear

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The grit that matters most is learning to be your best when you're at your worst. This is really the difference between elite-level performers and everyone else. If you can do this, what you discover is real power.

Josh Waitzkin