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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on that first one.
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sendI have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened.
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When in doubt, tell the truth.
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The secret of making progress is to get started. The secret to starting is to divide your complex, overwhelming task into small, manageable tasks, and then start the first.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
~ Mark Twain Quotes
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
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Mark Twain, Great, Now
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
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Too many of those with unrealized aspirations have set them aside due to fear of failure. The bigger the dream, the greater the fear. Doing less than our best allays this fear. I could have done better if I’d tried, we assure ourselves. Among the least appreciated reasons for doing superficial, second-rate work of any kind is the comfort of knowing it’s not our best that’s on the line. By not trying too hard, we avoid learning what our true potential is, and having to fulfill it. Doing our best can be deeply threatening. It forces us to consider what we’re actually capable of accomplishing. Once we learn that lesson, we can’t unlearn it. Our true potential becomes both a shining light we can follow and an oppressive burden of expectation that might, or might not, be met.
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