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[
{
"quote": "Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.",
"bookTitle": "Lean In (Sheryl Sandberg)\r"
},
{
"quote": "In life, never spend more than 10 percent of your time on the problem, and spend at least 90 percent of your time on the solution. Most important, don’t sweat the small stuff … and remember, it’s all small stuff!",
"bookTitle": "Awaken the Giant Within (Robbins, Anthony)\r"
},
{
"quote": "For me, enough money means being able to relax and not worry.",
"bookTitle": "Eight Dates (John Gottman)\r"
},
{
"quote": "Creativity is by its nature an act of boldness and rebellion. You are not accepting the status quo or conventional",
"bookTitle": "Mastery (Robert Greene)\r"
},
{
"quote": "One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another.",
"bookTitle": "Think and Grow Rich (Optimized for Kindle) (Hill, Napoleon;$1 Books)\r"
},
{
"quote": "Constantly remind yourself of how little you truly know, and of how mysterious the world remains.",
"bookTitle": "Mastery (Robert Greene)\r"
},
{
"quote": "If you know your own personal values and generally live by them, you are likely to be comfortable with who you are. You don’t need to compare yourself with other people because you’re a success.",
"bookTitle": "Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life (Susan David)\r"
},
{
"quote": "The essence of being human involves asking questions, not answering them.",
"bookTitle": "How Google Works (Eric Schmidt;Alan Eagle)\r"
},
{
"quote": "Mentoring a young person is four times more predictive of happiness than your health or how much money you make.",
"bookTitle": "Barking Up the Wrong Tree (Eric Barker)\r"
},
{
"quote": "When attacked, a decentralized organization tends to become even more open and decentralized.",
"bookTitle": "The Starfish and Spider (vueringschristian@gmail.com)\r"
},
{
"quote": "When managers mistakenly believe that only a finite number of their employees can be “A” performers, they end up demotivating and stirring up resentment among all those who end up with lower grades.",
"bookTitle": "Big Potential (Shawn Achor)\r"
},
{
"quote": "Men learn as they teach.",
"bookTitle": "Letters from a Stoic (Seneca,)\r"
},
{
"quote": "The more often you make decisions, the more you’ll realize that you truly are in control of your life.",
"bookTitle": "Awaken the Giant Within (Robbins, Anthony)\r"
},
{
"quote": "Ultimately what makes relationships work is the decision to make them work.",
"bookTitle": "Eight Dates (John Gottman)\r"
},
{
"quote": "Collaborate and Make Others Successful: Going Out of Your Way to Help Others Is the Secret Sauce.",
"bookTitle": "The Culture Code (Daniel Coyle)\r"
},
{
"quote": "To get people to buy things they had never imagined they needed.",
"bookTitle": "How Should We Live? (Krznaric, Roman)\r"
},
{
"quote": "Do not stay in bed if you are not sleeping.",
"bookTitle": "Simple Rules (Donald Sull)\r"
},
{
"quote": "The joy of teaching people something that they want to learn is awesome.",
"bookTitle": "The Unicorn Project (Gene Kim)\r"
},
{
"quote": "Speaking in absolute and overstated terms does not increase your influence, it decreases it.",
"bookTitle": "Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition (Christian Vuerings)\r"
},
{
"quote": "More important than being first or the most creative is figuring out what works in practice, doing it better than anyone else, and then making the very most of it with a 20 Mile March.",
"bookTitle": "Great by Choice (Collins, Jim;Hansen, Morten T.)\r"
},
{
"quote": "Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.",
"bookTitle": "Crazy is a Compliment The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags (Linda Rottenberg)\r"
},
{
"quote": "Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.",
"bookTitle": "The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle)\r"
},
{
"quote": "When failure is not an option we can forget about learning, creativity, and innovation.",
"bookTitle": "Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Brown, Brene)\r"
},
{
"quote": "False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.",
"bookTitle": "Lying (Sam Harris)\r"
},
{
"quote": "An idle mind is the devil’s playground.",
"bookTitle": "Chaos Monkeys (Antonio Garcia Martinez)\r"
},
{
"quote": "If you could bring intense presence into your aloneness, that would work for you too.",
"bookTitle": "The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle)\r"
},
{
"quote": "A surefire way to be forced to live as a prisoner of your past is not to complete things.",
"bookTitle": "The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness (Olson, Jeff)\r"
}
]
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