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The person who fails the most wins.

Every successful person I know starts before they feel ready.

Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person.

I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.

Inner #‎ peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your #‎ emotions

The person that angers you most, teaches you best

I never made a person look bad. They do that themselves.

The brain cannot multitask. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time…To put it bluntly, research shows that we can’t multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing information-rich inputs simultaneously…Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

Don't play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security, predictability, control. These, too, are nets. Above all, resist the fear of failure. Yes, you will make mistakes. But they will be your mistakes, not someone else's. And you will survive them, and you will know yourself better for having made them, and you will be a fuller and a stronger person.

Each galaxy, star, or person is the temporary owner of particles that have passed through the births and deaths of entities across vast reaches of time and space. The particles that make us have traveled billions of years across the universe; long after we and our planet are gone, they will be a part of other worlds.

When the finely tuned balance among the different parts of bodies breaks down, the individual creature can die. A cancerous tumor, for example, is born when one batch of cells no longer cooperates with others. By dividing endlessly, or by failing to die properly, these cells can destroy the necessary balance that makes a living individual person. Cancers break the rules that allow cells to cooperate with one another. Like bullies who break cooperative societies, cancers behave in their own best interest until they kill their larger community, the human body.

Whenever you see some business person quoted complaining about how he or she can't find workers with the necessary skills, ask what wage they're offering. _x000D_ Almost always it turns out what said business person really wants is highly (and expensively) educated workers at a manual-labor wage. No wonder they come up short.

Anyone can notice wrong answers. It takes the creative person to notice the wrong questions.

The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access

Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

For the record, if there's anyone who could flirt with a mountain range, it's probably the person standing in front of you.

According to the Buddha, the failure to recognize the illusion of the self is the source of all ignorance and unhappiness. It is only by renouncing the self, that is, by dropping his ego defences and committing metaphorical suicide, that a person can open up to different modes of being and relating and thereby transform himself into a pure essence of humanity. In so doing, he becomes free to recast himself as a much more joyful and productive person, and attains the only species of transcendence and immortality that is open to man.

Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

Whenever we encounter another person in love, we learn something new about God.