Ed Potton

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Knowledge isn't free. You have to pay attention.

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🔺 NEW: Gavin Williamson, the Cabinet Office minister, is being investigated over abusive, expletive-ridden text messages to a colleague complaining about not being invited to the Queen’s funeral and warning “there is a price for everything” https://t.co/LL0iZ1s4QC

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"Don’t spend your time making other people happy. Other people being happy is their problem. It’s not your problem. If you are happy, it makes other people happy."

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If you dont put in the work dont expect the results

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Live life on your terms. Time to stand up for who you are and what you want. Stop letting others tell you what to do or why it cant be done.

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Take a paper. Start writing down your goals. Write fast. Dont be afraid of wanting too much. Keep on writing. Write from your heart. Make the list as long as you want. Simplify it & do it daily. Now watch how your enthusiasm, persistence and hard work make your goals happen.

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Life will never conform to all of our desires. Ever. You can either get good at dealing with this fact or good at avoiding it.

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Nothing is permanent. Nothing lasts forever. Never take anything for granted. Keep fighting. Never give up.

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Time, not money, is the most important currency of your life.

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Surround yourself with people who talk about visions, ideas, books and growth not other people.

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focus on you until the focus is on you

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Swift action by security guards stopped a climate protester from glueing herself to a Van Gogh painting and throwing soup at a Gaugin https://t.co/0mdRoHXAnB

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Stop doubting yourself. Work hard and make it happen

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Stupidity is knowing the truth, seeing the truth but still believing the lies.

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Happiness, success, fulfillment. Not something you get from another person. You lead life. Life doesnt lead you.

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Rishi Sunak is set to become the United Kingdom’s next prime minister, making him the most powerful person in the country as well as already among the U.K.’s richest.

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🔺 EXCLUSIVE: The home secretary is accused of choosing not to sign off on providing accommodation for migrants held in Kent https://t.co/9cMMlKWjIS

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Success requires passion. But passion only works when you control it, not when passion controls you.

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Neighbours of an Indonesian plantation worker who was swallowed whole by a 22ft python say they have been left terrified by her death https://t.co/wxicCHnAuE

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There will be people who love the idea of you, but lack the maturity to handle the reality of you.