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    “We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.”

    Epictetus, The Art of Living

      “Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.” ~ Jim Rohn

        “Its not how hard you hit, but how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.” ~ Rocky Balboa

          “Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.” ~ Mary Lou Retton

            “Be quick but never hurry.” ~ John Wooden

              “Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.” ~ Alan Schoenfeld

                “If a man works hard, the land will not be lazy.” ~ Chinese Proverb

                  “No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.” ~ Unknown

                    “I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” ~ Michael Jordan

                      “If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” ~ Michael Jordan

                        “Success isn’t something you chase. It’s something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it’ll come when you least expect it.” ~ Michael Jordan

                          “If you don’t know what you are doing wrong, you can never know what you are doing right.” ~ Chen Xinhua

                            “If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.” ~ Michelangelo

                              “When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological proccesses are activated.” ~ Anders Ericsson

                                “Landing on your butt twenty thousand times is where great performance comes from.” ~ Geoff Colvin

                                  “Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure.  That is the essential paradox of expert performance.” ~ Matthew Syed

                                    “World-class performance comes by striving for a target just out of reach, but with a vivid awareness of how the gap might be breached.  Over time, through constant repetition and deep concentration, the gap will disappear, only for a new target to be created, just out of reach once again.” ~ Matthew Syed

                                      “The practice sessions of aspiring champions have a specific and never-changing purpose: Progress.  Every second of every minute of every hour, the goal is to extend one’s mind and body, to push oneself beyond the outer limits of one’s capacities, to engage so deeply in the task that one leaves the training session, literally, a changed person.” ~ Matthew Syed

                                        “When most people practice, they focus on the things they can do effortlessly.  Expert practice is different.  It entails considerable, specific, and sustained efforts to do something you can’t do well – or even at all.  Research across domains shows that it is only by working at what you can’t do that you turn into the expert you want to become.” ~ Ericsson