Quotes of successful people

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const AUTHORS_QUOTES = {
  'Franz Kafka': [
    'Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.',
  ],
  'Peter Drucker': [
    'Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.',
    'Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.',
    'Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.',
    'Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.',
    'Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.',
    'Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.',
    'Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.',
  ],
  'Margaret Bonnano': [
    'Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.',
  ],
  'Martha Stewart': ['Life is too complicated not to be orderly.'],
  'Dennis Waitley': [
    'The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.',
  ],
  'Stephen King': [
    'Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.',
  ],
  'Bruce Lee': [
    'If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.',
    'Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.',
    'If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.',
    'To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.',
  ],
  'Tony Robbins': [
    'It’s not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know.',
    'Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!',
    'You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.',
  ],
  'Henry David Thoreau': [
    'It is not enough to be busy… The question is: what are we busy about?',
  ],
  'Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth': [
    'To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.',
  ],
  'David Allen': [
    'Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.',
    'If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.',
  ],
  'Donald Trump': [
    'I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.',
    'Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive.',
  ],
  'Coco Chanel': [
    'Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.',
  ],
  'Stephen Covey': [
    'The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.',
  ],
  'Arthur Schopenhauer': [
    'Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it.',
  ],
  'Tim Ferriss': ['Focus on being productive instead of busy.'],
  'John Randolph': [
    'Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions',
  ],
  'Oprah Winfrey': [
    'I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.',
    'Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.',
    'The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but on significance – and then even the small steps and little victories along your path with take on greater meaning.',
  ],
  'Herb Kelleher': ['We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things.'],
  'Shia LaBeouf': [
    'There’s a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you’ll never be successful.',
  ],
  'Brian Tracy': [
    'Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation',
  ],
  'Benjamin Franklin': [
    'Lost time is never found again.',
    'By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.',
    'You may delay, but time will not.',
    'Energy and persistence conquer all things.',
  ],
  'Ellen Sue Stern': [
    'In a society that judges self-worth on productivity, it’s no wonder we fall prey to the misconception that the more we do, the more we’re worth',
  ],
  'Laurence Sterne': [
    'The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.',
  ],
  'Thomas J. Watson': [
    'The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm',
    'Would you like to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.',
  ],
  'Preston Ni': ['Don’t confuse the urgent with the important.'],
  'Greg Evans': [
    'Both good and bad days should end with productivity. You mood affairs should never influence your work.',
  ],
  'Seth Godin': [
    'You don’t need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.',
  ],
  'Carlos Castaneda': [
    'The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.',
  ],
  'Peter McWilliams': [
    'To the degree we’re not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.',
  ],
  'Andrew Grove': [
    'Stressing output is the key to improving to productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.',
  ],
  'Paul J. Meyer': [
    'Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.',
  ],
  'Doug Evelyn': ['Long-range planning works best in the short term.'],
  'Douglas R. Hofstadter': [
    'Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.',
  ],
  'Jack Ma': [
    'If there are nine rabbits on the ground, if you want to catch one, just focus on one.',
  ],
  '"Quiet Riot" song': ['Winners Take All'],
  'Vince Lombardi': [
    'Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.',
  ],
  'Friedrich Nietzsche': [
    'When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.',
    'The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.',
  ],
  'Jeffrey Immelt': [
    'Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools.. but they must be kept to a minimum.',
  ],
  'George Bernard Shaw': [
    'A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing',
  ],
  'Caterina Fake': [
    'Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.',
  ],
  'Napoleon Hill': [
    'Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches.',
    'There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.',
  ],
  'Delmore Schwartz': [
    'Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.',
  ],
  Aristotle: [
    'Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.',
  ],
  'Thomas Edison': [
    'There is no substitute for hard work.',
    'The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.',
  ],
  Picasso: ['Action is the foundational key to all success.'],
  'Ernest Hemingway': ['Never mistake motion for action.'],
  'Henry Link': [
    'While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.',
  ],
  Voltaire: ['The perfect is the enemy of the good.'],
  'Warren Buffett': [
    'No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.',
    'You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.',
    'Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.',
  ],
  'Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.': [
    'There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions.',
  ],
  'Tom Peters': [
    'The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity',
  ],
  'Robert Frost': ['The only way around is through.'],
  'Nathan W. Morris': [
    'It’s not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.',
  ],
  'Les Brown': [
    'You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.',
    'You do not need to be great to get started, but you need to get started to be great.',
  ],
  'Charles Richards': [
    'Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.',
  ],
  'Henry J. Kaiser': [
    'Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you.',
  ],
  'Ronnie Coleman': [
    'Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don’t nobody want to lift no heavy-ass weights.',
  ],
  'Walt Disney': ['The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.'],
  'Mahatma Gandhi': [
    'Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; It is its own reward. Everything else is in god’s hands.',
  ],
  'Albert Einstein': [
    'It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.',
  ],
  'Zig Ziglar': [
    'You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.',
    'You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.',
    'Remember that failure is an event, not a person.',
  ],
  'Michael Jordan': [
    'Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.',
  ],
  'Muhammad Ali': [
    'He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.',
  ],
  'John F. Kennedy': [
    'There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.',
  ],
  'Winston Churchill': ['If you are going through hell, keep going.'],
  'Leonardo da Vinci': ['Learning never exhausts the mind.'],
  'John D. Rockefeller': [
    'Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.',
  ],
  'Sigmund Freud': ['Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.'],
  'Henry Ford': [
    'Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.',
  ],
  'Stephen Hawking': [
    'Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.',
  ],
  'Rolling Stones': ['Time waits for no one, and it won’t wait for me.'],
  'Jim Ryan': ['Motivation gets you going. Discipline keeps you going.'],
  'TS Eliot': [
    'Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.',
  ],
  'Mario Andretti': [
    'If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.',
  ],
  'MJ DeMarco': [
    'Hard work and commitment separates the winners from losers.',
    'Don’t be passionate about what needs to be done; be passionate about what you will become.',
  ],
  'Darren Hardy': [
    'Your only path to success is through a continuum of mundane, unsexy, unexciting, and sometimes difficult daily disciplines compounded over time.',
    'There is a one thing that 99 percent of "failures" and "successful" folks have in common - they all hate doing the same things. The difference is successful people do them anyway.',
    'Motivation without action leads to self-delusion.',
  ],
  'James Allen': [
    'In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.',
  ],
  'Maxwell Maltz': [
    'We must learn to do our work, act upon the best assumptions available, and leave results to take care of themselves',
    'Life becomes worthwhile when you have worthwhile goals.',
  ],
  'Cal Newport': [
    "If you can't learn, you can't thrive.",
    'To learn hard things quickly, you must focus intensely without distraction.',
    'To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from distraction.',
    'The easiest way to consistently start deep work sessions is to transform them into a simple regular habit.',
    'Once your brain has become accustomed to on-demand distraction it’s hard to shake the addiction even when you want to concentrate.',
  ],
  'James Clear': [
    'Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.',
  ],
  'David Goggins': [
    'The ticket to victory often comes down to bringing your very best when you feel your worst.',
    'Only you can master your mind, which is what it takes to live a bold life filled with accomplishments most people consider beyond their capability.',
  ],
  'Doug Firebaugh': [
    'Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tommorow.',
  ],
  'Wystan Hugh Auden': [
    'Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition',
  ],
  'Jon Bon Jovi': [
    "Remember these three P's: passion plus persistence equals possibility",
  ],
  'Babe Ruth': ['You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.'],
  'Helen Keller': [
    'We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.',
  ],
  'Calvin Coolidge': [
    'Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.',
  ],
  'Lin Yutang': [
    'The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.',
  ],
  'Greg McKeown': ["If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will."],
  'Pablo Picasso': ['Without great solitude no serious work is possible.'],
  'Greg McKeown.': ['In order to have focus we need to escape to focus.'],
  'Qi Lu': [
    'Luck is like a bus if you miss one, there’s always the next one. But if you’re not prepared, you won’t be able to jump on.',
  ],
  'Dean Kamen': [
    'Instead of getting frustrated by repeating the same old problem reframe the question in a new way that is amenable to a different kind of solution.',
  ],
  'Maya Angelou': [
    'Life is going to be short, no matter how long it is. You don’t have much time. Go to work.',
  ],
  'Richard Branson': [
    'Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.',
  ],
  'Viktor Frankl': [
    'Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.',
    'What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.',
    'Man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.',
  ],
  'Steven Pressfield': [
    'The more important a call or action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.',
    'Procrastination is the most common manifestation of Resistance because it’s the easiest to rationalize.',
    'Individuals who are realized in their own lives almost never criticize others. If they speak at all, it is to offer encouragement. Watch yourself.',
    'The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.',
    'If you’re paralyzed with fear, it’s a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.',
    'The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.',
    'Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.',
  ],
  'Edward de Bono': [
    'If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.',
  ],
  'Mike Ditka': ['You’re never a loser until you quit trying.'],
  'Theodore Isaac Rubin': [
    'Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.',
  ],
  'Julie Andrews': [
    'Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.',
  ],
  'Ray Bradbury': ['You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.'],
  'Jim Rohn': ['For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward.'],
  'Frank Lloyd Wright': [
    'I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things that you want to see happen.',
  ],
  Epictetus: [
    'In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.',
  ],
  'Theodore Roosevelt': [
    'We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.',
  ],
  'Wendell Phillips': [
    'What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.',
  ],
  'Edwin Hubbel Chapin': [
    'The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.',
  ],
  'Jordan B. Peterson': [
    'Something better might be attained in the future by giving up something of value in the present.',
  ],
  'Ryan Holiday': [
    'If you want momentum, you’ll have to create it yourself, right now, by getting up and getting started.',
    'Our perceptions are the thing that we’re in complete control of.',
    'Eevery ounce of energy directed at things we can’t actually influence is wasted',
    'Persist and resist. Persist in your efforts. Resist giving in to distraction, discouragement, or disorder.',
    'Follow the process and not the prize.',
    'If something is in our control, it’s worth every ounce of our efforts and energy.',
  ],
  'Laurie Anderson': [
    'None of us know what will happen. Don’t spend time worrying about it. Make the most beautiful thing you can. Try to do that every day. That’s it.',
  ],
  'Annie Dillard': [
    'How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.',
  ],
  'Katie Kacvinsky': [
    'You need to be content with small steps. That’s all life is. Small steps that you take every day so when you look back down the road it all adds up and you know you covered some distance.',
  ],
  'Vincent Van Gogh': [
    'Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.',
  ],
  'Dan Poynter': [
    'Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.',
  ],
  'Robert Collier': [
    'Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.',
  ],
  'John Wooden': [
    'It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.',
  ],
  Confucius: [
    'It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.',
  ],
  'Mark Twain': [
    'The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking you complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.',
  ],
  'Nir Eyal': [
    'Fun is looking for the variability in something other people don’t notice. It’s breaking through the boredom and monotony to discover its hidden beauty.',
    'Self-compassion makes people more resilient to letdowns by breaking the vicious cycle of stress that often accompanies failure.',
    'The goal is to eliminate all white space on your calendar so you’re left with a template for how you intend to spend your time each day.',
    'The one thing we control is the time we put into a task.',
    'Checking email isn’t so much the problem; it’s the habitual rechecking that gets us into trouble.',
    'Removing unnecessary external triggers from our line of sight declutters our workspace and frees the mind to concentrate on what’s really important.',
  ],
  'Dalai Lama': [
    'Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.',
  ],
  'Orson Scott Card': [
    'We question all of our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe in, and those we never think to question.'
  ]
}

export const QUOTES = Object.entries(AUTHORS_QUOTES)
  .map(([author, quotes]) => quotes.map((text) => ({ author, text })))
  .flat()