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    "quotes": [

    {
    "quote": "Success isn't owned. It is leased, and rent is due everyday.","author":"JJ Watts"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.","author":"Ira Glass"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Dude, sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something.","author":"Jake the Dog"
    },
    {
    "quote": "A beginner practices until they get it right, a master practices until they can't get it wrong.","author":"Anonymous"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The secret to making great barbeque is to make a lot of bad barbeque.","author":"Aaron Franklin"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.","author":"Henri Cartier-Bresson"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Premature optimization is the root of all evil.","author":"Donald Knuth"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Progress over perfection.","author":""
    },
    {
    "quote": "Iteration quickly.","author":""
    },
    {
    "quote": "Move fast and break things.","author":""
    },
    {
    "quote": "Don't let perfection be the enemy of good enough.","author":""
    },
    {
    "quote": "I hate that man. I must get to know him better.","author":"Abraham Lincoln"
    },
    {
    "quote": "We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour.","author":"Stephen Covey"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Be proactive, not reactive.","author":""
    },
    {
    "quote": "Effectiveness is more important than intelligence.","author":""
    },
    {
    "quote": "My opinions are not mine and they are holding me back.","author":""
    },
    {
    "quote": "My advice to you is to change your basic relationship to songwriting. You are not the ‘Great Creator’ of your songs, you are simply their servant, and the songs will come to you when you have adequately prepared yourself to receive them. They are not inside you, unable to get out; rather, they are outside of you, unable to get in.","author":"Nick Cave"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Nothing is ever personal.","author":""
    },
    {
    "quote": "You train others how to treat you.","author":""
    },
    {
    "quote": "If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.","author":""
    },
    {
    "quote": "Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is: Everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know — if you push in, something will pop out the other side — that you can change it, you can mold it. That’s maybe the most important thing. It’s to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that’s very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you’ll want to change life and make it better, cause it’s kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.","author":"Steve Jobs"
    },
    {
    "quote": "There are two types of games. One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play. [...] There is only one infinite game.","author":"James Carse"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Less is more.","author":""
    },
    {
    "quote": "Eigthy percent of success is showing up.","author":"Woody Allen"
    },
    {
    "quote": "You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.","author":"Andre Gide"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.","author":"Albert Schweitzer"
    },
    {
    "quote": "I have no other wish than a close fusion with nature and I desire no other fate than to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.","author":"Claude Monet"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.","author":"Albert A. Bartlett"
    },
    {
    "quote": "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.","author":"Theodore Roosevelt"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.","author":"Albert Einstein"
    },
    {
    "quote": "We first make our habits, then our habits make us.","author":"John Dryden"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.","author":"Bruce Lee"
    },
    {
    "quote": "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.","author":"Vince Lombardi"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Wisdom begins in wonder.","author":"Socrates"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.","author":"Jim Rohn"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Twenty years from now you you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.","author":"Mark Twain"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Believe you can and you're halfway there.","author":"Theodore Roosevelt"
    },
    {
    "quote": "If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.","author":"Bruce Lee"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.","author":"Muhammad Ali"
    },
    {
    "quote": "If you are working on something that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.","author":"Steve Jobs"
    },
    {
    "quote": "What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.","author":"Charles Bukowski"
    },
    {
    "quote": "It's Never Too Late To Be What You Might Have Been.","author":"George Eliot"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Quality is not an act, it is a habit.","author":"Aristotle"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.","author":"Pablo Picasso"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.","author":"Confucius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.","author":"Daisaku Ikeda"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Pros are just amateurs who know how to gracefully recover from their mistakes.","author":"Kevin Kelly"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Ego and mastery exist on opposite ends of the same continuum. The more one leans towards ego, the further one is from mastery.","author":"Sam Yang"
    },
    {
    "quote": "I try to remind my group each week that we are all idiots and know nothing, but we have the good fortune of knowing it.","author":"Nassim Taleb"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The Discipline is to put the task at the center.","author":"H. A. Dorfman"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Vocation can be a cure for self-centeredness, because to do the work well you have to pay attention to the task itself.","author":"David Brooks"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The harder I work, the luckier I get.","author":"Gary Player"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Forever is composed of nows.","author":"Emily Dickinson"
    },
    {
    "quote": "To iterate is human, to recurse divine.","author":"Peter Deutsch"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.","author":"Mark Twain"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.","author":"Rumi"
    },
    {
    "quote": "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.","author":"Albert Camus"
    },
    {
    "quote": "As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man.","author":"James Irwin"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.","author":"Alan Kay"
    },
    {
    "quote": "It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.","author":"Leonardo da Vinci"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The best way out is always through.","author":"Robert Frost"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain from you your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you, and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.","author":"Kinky Friedman"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Follow your inner moonlight. Don't hide the madness.","author":"Allen Ginsberg"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The secret of getting ahead is getting started.","author":"Mark Twain"
    },
    {
    "quote": "If you're any good at all, you know you can be better.","author":"Lindsay Buckingham"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.","author":"Stephen Hawking"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The universe cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which means it is humanly impossible to comprehend a single word.","author":"Galileo Galilei"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow, will be our doubts of today.","author":"Franklin D. Roosevelt"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.","author":"Les Brown"
    },
    {
    "quote": "You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.","author":"Unknown"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.","author":"Farrah Gray"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.","author":"Amelia Earhart"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.","author":"Steve Jobs"
    },
    {
    "quote": "What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.","author":"Bob Dylan"
    },
    {
    "quote": "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.","author":"Booker T. Washington"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The mind is everything. What you think you become.","author":"Buddha"
    },
    {
    "quote": "An unexamined life is not worth living.","author":"Socrates"
    },
    {
    "quote": "It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.","author":"Mae Jemison"
    },
    {
    "quote": "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.","author":"Lao Tzu"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Fall seven times and stand up eight.","author":"Japanese Proverb"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.","author":"Henry Ford"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.","author":"Kevin Kruse"
    },
    {
    "quote": "If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.","author":"Vincent Van Gogh"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.","author":"Confucius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The only way to do great work is to love what you do.","author":"Steve Jobs"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.","author":"W. Clement Stone"
    },
    {
    "quote": "If you can dream it, you can achieve it.","author":"Zig Ziglar"
    },
    {
    "quote": "You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.","author":"Christopher Columbus"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.","author":"John Lennon"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Change your thoughts and you change your world.","author":"Norman Vincent Peale"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.","author":"Joshua J. Marine"
    },
    {
    "quote": "If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.","author":"Tony Robbins"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.","author":"Henry David Thoreau"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.","author":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.","author":"Charles Swindoll"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.","author":"Thomas Paine"
    },
    {
    "quote": "It always seems impossible until it's done.","author":"Nelson Mandela"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.","author":"Sophie Scholl"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.","author":"Richard P. Feynman"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.","author":"Richard P. Feynman"
    },
    {
    "quote": "You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.","author":"Richard P. Feynman"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.","author":"Richard P. Feynman"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.","author":"Richard P. Feynman"
    },
    {
    "quote": "I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.","author":"Richard P. Feynman"
    },
    {
    "quote": "We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.","author":"Richard P. Feynman"
    },
    {
    "quote": "I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.","author":"Richard P. Feynman"
    },
    {
    "quote": "All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't.' — which is just another way of saying that you can't.","author":" Richard P. Feynman"
    },
    {
    "quote": "I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!","author":"Richard P. Feynman"
    },
    {
    "quote": "So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom.","author":"Richard P. Feynman"
    },
    {
    "quote": "What I cannot create, I do not understand.","author":"Richard P. Feynman"
    },
    {
    "quote": "It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.","author":"Richard P. Feynman"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.","author":"Richard P. Feynman"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.","author":"Richard P. Feynman"
    },
    {
    "quote": "She wrote me a letter asking,'How can I read it?,Its so hard.' I told her to start at the beginning and read as far as you can get until you're lost. Then start again at the beginning and keep working through until you can understand the whole book. And thats what she did","author":"Richard P. Feynman"
    },
    {
    "quote": "What do I advise? Forget it all. Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build a cloud chamber? Then go on doing things like that. Develop your talents wherever they may lead. Damn the torpedoes - full speed ahead! If you have any talent,or any occupation that delights you,do it, and do it to the hilt.","author":"Richard P. Feynman"
    },
    {
    "quote": "There are the rushing waves mountains of molecules each stupidly minding its own business trillions apart yet forming white surf in unison Ages on ages before any eyes could see year after year thunderously pounding the shore as now. For whom, for what? On a dead planet with no life to entertain. Never at rest tortured by energy wasted prodigiously by the Sun poured into space. A mite makes the sea roar. Deep in the sea all molecules repeat the patterns of one another till complex new ones are formed. They make others like themselves and a new dance starts. Growing in size and complexity living things masses of atoms DNA, protein dancing a pattern ever more intricate. Out of the cradle onto dry land here it is standing: atoms with consciousness; matter with curiosity. Stands at the sea, wonders at wondering: I a universe of atoms an atom in the Universe.","author":"Richard P. Feynman"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Do external things distract you? Then make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions. But make sure you guard against the other kind of confusion. People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impuls toward are wasting their time - even when hard at work.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The speed with which all of them vanish - the objects in the world and the memory of them in time.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "You cannot lose another life than the one you're living now, or live another one than the one you're loosing. The longest amounts to the same as the shortest. The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can't lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don't have?","author":"Marcus Aurelius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people - unless it affects the common good.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "You need to avoid certain things in your thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "He keeps in mind that all rational things are related, and that to care for human beings is part of being human. Which doesn't mean we have to share their opinions. We should listen only to those whose lives conform to nature. And the others? He bears in mind what sort of people they are - both at home and abroad, by night as well as day - and who they spend their time with. And he cares nothing for their praise - men who can't even meet their own standards.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "It would be wrong for you to stand between you and attaining goodness - as a rational being and a citizen. Anything at all: the applause of the crowd, high office, wealth, or self-indulgence. All of them might seem to be compatible with it - for a while. But suddenly they control us and sweep us away.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "And concentrate on this, your life long: for your mind to be in the right state - the state a rational, civic mind should be in.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "And not a life cut short by death, like an actor who stops before the play is done, the plot wound up.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Your ability to control your thoughts - treat it with respect.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it. Small as even the greatest renown, passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "To welcome with affection what is sent by fate. Not to stain or disturb the spirit within him with a mess of false beliefs. Instead to preserve it faithfully, by calmly obeying God - saying nothing untrue, doing nothing unjust. And if the others don't acknowledge it - this life lived with simplicity, humility, cheerfulness - he doesn't resent them for it, and isn't deterred from following the road where it leads: to the end of life. An end to be approached in purity, in serenity, in acceptance, in peaceful unity with what must be.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "No random actions, none not based on underlying principles.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "People try to get away from it all - to the country, to the beach, to the mountains. You always wish that you could too. Which is idiotic: you can get away from it anytime you like. By going within. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful - more free of interruptions - than your own soul. Especially if you have other things to rely on. An instant's recollection and there it is: complete tranquility. And by tranquility I mean a kind of harmony.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "What's there to complain about? People's misbehavior? But take into consideration: 1. That rational beings exist for one another; 2. That doing what's right sometimes requires patience; 3. That no one does the wrong thing deliberately; 4. And the number of people who have feuded and envied and hated and fought and died and been buried.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of all those applauding hands. The people who praise us - how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region in which it all takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited. How many people there will be to admire you, and who they are. So keep this refuge in mind: the back roads to your self. Above all, no strain and no stress. Be straightforward. Look at the things like a man, like a human being, like a cititzen, like a mortal. And among the things you turn to, these two: 1. That things have no hold on the soul. They stand there unmoving, outside it. Disturbance comes only from within - from our own perceptions. 2. That everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist. Think of how many changes you've already seen. 'The world is nothing but change. Our life is only perception.'","author":"Marcus Aurelius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "That sort of person is bound to do that. You might as well resent a fig tree for secreting juice. (Anyway, before very long you'll both be dead - dead and soon forgotten.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Choose not to be harmed - and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed - and you haven't been.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. Otherwise it cannot harm you - inside or out.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "That every event is the right one. Look closely and you'll see. Not just the right one overall, but right. As if someone had weighed it out with scales. Keep looking closely like that, and embody it in your actions: goodness - what defines a good person. Keep to it in everything you do.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "You have functioned as a part of something; you will vanish into what produced you. Or be restored, rather. To the logos from which all things spring. By being changed.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you're alive and able - be good.","author":"Marcus Aurelius"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.","author":"W. Clement Stone"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.","author":"Julie Andrews"
    },
    {
    "quote": "In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time – none, zero.","author":"Charlie Munger"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.","author":"Charlie Munger"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.", "author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson"
    },
    {
    "quote": "As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.”,"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
    },
    {
    "quote": "With deliberate and repeated effort, progress becomes inevitable.","author": "Thomas M. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Real peace and contentment in our lives come from realizing that life is a process to engage in, a journey down a path that we can choose to experience as magical.","author": "Thomas M. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "When we subtly shift toward both focusing on and finding joy in the process of achieving instead of having the goal, we have gained a new skill. And once mastered, it is magical and incredibly empowering.","author": "Thomas M. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "If you are not in control of your thoughts, then you are not in control of yourself.","author": "Thomas M. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "When we subtly shift toward both focusing on and finding joy in the process of achieving instead of having the goal, we have gained a new skill. And once mastered, it is magical and incredibly empowering.","author": "Thomas M. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "We erroneously think that there is a magical point that we will reach and then we will be happy.","author": "Thomas M. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "When we learn to focus on and embrace the process of experiencing life, whether we’re working toward a personal aspiration or working through a difficult time, we begin to free ourselves from the stress and anxiety that are born out of our attachment to our goals, our sense that ‘I can’t feel happiness until I reach my goal.","author": "Thomas M. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "However, the practicing mind is quiet. It lives in the present and has laser-like, pinpoint focus and accuracy. It obeys our precise directions, and all our energy moves through it. Because of this, we are calm and completely free of anxiety. We are where we should be at that moment, doing what we should be doing and completely aware of what we are experiencing. There is no wasted motion, physically or mentally.","author": "Thomas M. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "We have a very unhealthy habit of making the product — our intended result — the goal, instead of the process of reaching that goal.","author": "Thomas M. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The word practice implies the presence of awareness and will. The word learning does not. When we practice something, we are involved in the deliberate repetition of a process with the intention of reaching a specific goal.","author": "Thomas M. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "When you focus on the process, the desired product takes care of itself with fluid ease. When you focus on the product, you immediately begin to fight yourself and experience boredom, restlessness, frustration, and impatience with the process.","author": "Thomas Mr. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "When you focus your mind on the present moment, on the process of what you are doing right now, you are always where you want to be and where you should be.","author": "Thomas M. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "In order to focus on the present, we must give up, at least temporarily, our attachment to our desired goal.","author": "Thomas M. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "When you shift your goal from the product you are trying to achieve to the process of achieving it, a wonderful phenomenon occurs: all pressure drops away.","author": "Thomas M. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "We waste so much of our energy by not being aware of how we are directing it.","author": "Thomas M. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "In summary, creating the practicing mind comes down to a few simple rules: Keep yourself process-oriented. Stay in the present. Make the process the goal and use the overall goal as a rudder to steer your efforts. Be deliberate, have an intention about what you want to accomplish, and remain aware of that intention.","author": "Thomas M. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "As we attempt to understand ourselves and our struggles with life’s endeavors, we may find peace in the observation of a flower. Ask yourself: At what point in a flower’s life, from seed to full bloom, does it reach perfection?","author": "Thomas M. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Most of the anxiety we experience in life comes from our feeling that there is an end point of perfection in everything that we involve ourselves with.","author": "Thomas M. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Habits are learned. Choose them wisely.","author": "Thomas M. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "You cannot change what you are unaware of.","author": "Thomas M. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "What is required is that you are aware of what you want to achieve, that you know the motions you must intentionally repeat to accomplish the goal, and that you execute your actions without emotions or judgments; just stay on course. You should do this in the comfort of knowing that intentionally repeating something over a short course of time will create a new habit or replace an old one.","author": "Thomas M. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Experiencing impatience is one of the first symptoms of not being in the present moment, not doing what you are doing, and not staying process-oriented.","author": "Thomas M. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The first step toward patience is to become aware of when your internal dialogue is running wild and dragging you with it. The second step in creating patience is understanding and accepting that there is no such thing as reaching a point of perfection in anything.","author": "Thomas M. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The first step toward patience is to become aware of when your internal dialogue is running wild and dragging you with it.","author": "Thomas M. Sterner"
    },
    {
    "quote": "If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.", "author": "Gary Keller"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Embarrassment is the cost of entry. If you aren't willing to look a foolish beginner, you’ll never become a graceful master.", "author": "Ed Latimore"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Art is theft.", "author": "Pablo Picasso"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn.", "author": "T.S. Eliot"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.", "author": "David Bowie"
    },
    {
    "quote": "What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.", "author": "William Ralph Inge"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light  and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.", "author": "Jim Jarmusch"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Nothing is more important than an unread library.", "author": "John Waters"
    },
    {
    "quote": "You are ready. Start making stuff.", "author": "Austin Kleon"
    },
    {
    "quote": "You have to dress for the job you want, not the job you have.", "author": "Austin Kleon"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.", "author": "Salvador Dalí"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.", "author": "Jessica Hische"
    },
    {
    "quote": "It’s not that people are mean or cruel, they’re just busy.", "author": "Steven Pressfield"
    },
    {
    "quote": "There’s only one rule I know of: You’ve got to be kind.", "author": "Kurt Vonnegut"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Find the most talented person in the room, and if it’s not you, go stand next to her. Hang out with her. Try to be helpful.", "author": "Harold Ramis"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.", "author": "Yohji Yamamoto"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Complain about the way other people make software by making software.", "author": "Andre Torrez"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The best way to get approval is to not need it.", "author": "Hugh MacLeod"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.", "author": "Gustave Flaubert"
    },
    {
    "quote": "If you ask yourself ‘What’s the best thing that happened today?’ it actually forces a certain kind of cheerful retrospection that pulls up from the recent past things to write about that you wouldn’t otherwise think about. If you ask yourself ‘What happened today?’ it’s very likely that you’re going to remember the worst thing, because you’ve had to deal with  it—you’ve had to rush somewhere or somebody said something mean to you—that’s what you’re going to remember. But if you ask what the best thing is, it’s going to be some particular slant of light, or some wonderful expression somebody had, or some particularly delicious salad.", "author": "Nicholson Baker"
    },
    {
    "quote": "If I had to give any advice, it would be to run through ideas quickly. If they're not gaining traction, or they're a struggle to grow, drop them and move on to the next idea. This isn't going to be true for everyone, but each of my successful projects was a success from day one. I posted them online, pointed a few communities towards them like Reddit, and ended up with a few thousand registered users in the first day. That then dropped to a few hundred daily registrations and went up from there for the coming years. They've still been a lot of work, but I knew I had something the instant they went live.Every project I launched that was difficult, never went anywhere. There were a handful of sites I started where I was working hard to build traffic and it was always the same, a spike, then nothing a week later. Some of these I worked on for months, one project I developed over the course of a year. My two or three successful projects were built within a week or two. They were rough, but provided something of value, and I could build them from there. No one hits a homerun every time. Look at Facebook, Google, and Microsoft struggle. These are companies with unlimited budgets, and some of the best in the industry. They fail. Often. It doesn't matter if you fail 90% of the time though, you just need to burn through those ten ideas to find the one that works. If you get hung up on the first idea, and devote all your finances and time for years, you'll never get to the good one. ", "author": "User9821"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The central task of education is to implant a will and a facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together. In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.", "author": "Eric Hoffer"
    },
    {
    "quote": "I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.", "author": "Paul Graham"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.", "author": "Robert Brault"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Disce ut semper victurus, vive ut cras moriturus.", "author": "St. Edmund of Abingdon"
    },
    {
    "quote": "If you're not drowning, you're a lifeguard.", "author": "Seth Godin"
    },
    {
    "quote": "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.", "author": "Alvin Toffler"
    },
    {
    "quote": "To progress again, man must remake himself. And he cannot remake himself without suffering. For he is both the marble and the sculptor. In order to uncover his true visage he must shatter his own substance with heavy blows of his hammer.", "author": "Alexis Carrel"
    },
    {
    "quote": "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.", "author": "Hitchens's razor"
    },
    {
    "quote": "Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.", "author": "Neil Gaiman"
    },
      {"quote": "There's no win and no fail, there's only make.", "author": "Sister Corita Kent"}
    ]
}