SWITCH FOR a Bigger Self. You may have that childhood dream of living in an isolate paradise where everything is abundant & comfortable. But it does not help you grow. You need to envision yourself as being capable of taking risks, solving problems & dealing well with even the most unlikable persons you could imagine.

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This is the simplest rule for greatness and comfort: Do your best and pray for the rest.

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Let's begin today, and say this everyday.

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Savor the now, secure the next.

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The greatest self help is to seek help from the Greatest.

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Addiction is good if you are addicted to what is good.

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Life is a drama - you need a role to play and a foe to slay.

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SWITCH OFF Biased Thinking Over-optimism & over-pessimism won't serve you the best. Just balance both. Be optimistic to have the energy to continue your journey, & be pessimistic to avoid possible downfalls.

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SWITCH TO B.O.L.D Goals. Don't stick too much to S.M.A.R.T goals because it ignores changes, insults your potential, and kills your passion & creativity. Instead, aim for B.O.L.D (Big, Optimistic, Liberating, Dramatic) goals.

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SWITCH FROM the Busy Life. Stop acting like everybody's hero. It will just waste your precious time & energy and make them irresponsible. Instead, just follow your Path and do only the tasks w/c you can do best and w/c can make the most impact to yourself & to the world.

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SWITCH ON Bullet-speed Learning & Acting! Learn from a lot of people who have already reached where you want to be right now - from their own stories of struggles, mistakes & failures. Having learned, immediately ACT! It's the non-negotiable ingredient to self-growth.

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I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.

Sandra Oh

Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.

Salman Rushdie

G.I. Joe has a heart and an attitude that feels right and familiar to me, so they could have ray guns, and they'd still feel more like real troops than many other franchises.

Karen Traviss

My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.

H. Robert Horvitz

Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

Dan Aykroyd

I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.

Mal Peet

I feel like this: When you call me in to do something with you, you must want me to do soul-singing. Because you know I'm a soul singer. Don't ask me to come in and rap. And don't ask me to come in and sing pop.

Sharon Jones

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.

Daphne Zuniga

I always say that characters must drive plots, never the reverse. Writing about large-scale events creates the risk that the scope of the events themselves can overwhelm the characters. I emphatically do not want that. That was the only trepidation I felt when I started 'The Twilight War.'

Paul S. Kemp

Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.

Dave Gibbons

My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes.

Douglas Trumbull

I love my Disney fans. A lot of the kids want to grow up and push away from that image, but I don't feel that way at all.

Chelsea Kane

I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.

Rand Paul

People say I owe a lot to television. The fact is I was a star long before television. What TV made me is unemployed.

Milton Berle

The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Arthur Koestler

I have an avocado tree at my place in Los Angeles - it's the smoother-skinned one, which tends to be a little stringy. Often the birds or raccoons get the avocados before I can harvest them. I have figs, too, which are great with prosciutto, of course. I have limes and lemons, which I use to make lemonade.

Kyle MacLachlan

I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was.

Brandon Routh

It's always been a dream of mine to be in a Woody Allen comedy.

Jennifer Carpenter

If you're cooking for a woman, make a good risotto and a salad. If you don't have time to make desert you can go and buy some macaroons to have afterwards.

Wolfgang Puck

It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

Zora Neale Hurston

Let the waves carry you where the light can not.

Mohit Kaushik

I'm pretty much using media all day because my school is online. It's sort of like homeschooling but also like going to real school - you log in and do all your work and email it to the teacher, and we have a teacher who oversees us on set.

Nolan Gould

I seem to get recognized more in London and Europe than over here in the States.

David Boreanaz

That was my dream, to compete against the best surfers in the best waves. But as a kid, it all seemed so unattainable. It was this big dream, but deep down I never thought it could really happen. But my parents always believed I could do it, and they helped me get through all the stages and take all the right steps.

Gabriel Medina