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    “My work ethic is the single most important factor in all of my accomplishments.  Everything else is secondary.  To me, a forty-hour work week is a 40 percent effort.  It may be satisfactory, but that’s another word for mediocrity.  Don’t settle for a forty-hour work week.  There are 168 hours in a week!  That means you have the hours to put in that extra time at work without skimping on your exercise.  It means streamlining your nutrition, spending quality time with your wife and kids.  It means scheduling your life like you’re on a twenty-four-hour mission every single day.” ~ David Goggins, Can’t Hurt Me

      “Some criticize my level of passion, but I’m not down with the prevailing mentalities that tend to dominate American society these days; the ones that tell us to go with the flow or invite us to learn how to get more with less effort.  F*ck that shortcut bullsh*t.  The reason I embrace my own obsessions and demand and desire more of myself is because I’ve learned that it’s only when I push beyond pain and suffering, past my perceived limitations, that I’m capable of accomplishing more, physically and mentally—in endurance races but also in life as a whole.  And I believe the same is true for you.” ~ David Goggins, Can’t Hurt Me

        “Visualization will never compensate for work undone.  You cannot visualize lies.  All the strategies I employ to answer the simple questions and win the mind game are only effective because I put in work.  It’s a lot more than mind over matter.  It takes relentless self-discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day, but if you do, you’ll find that at the other end of that suffering is a whole other life just waiting for you.” ~ David Goggins, Can’t Hurt Me

          “The reason it’s important to push hardest when you want to quit the most is because it helps you callous your mind.  It’s the same reason why you have to do your best work when you are the least motivated.” ~ David Goggins, Can’t Hurt Me

            “Genes can’t make you successful if you’re not doing the work.  Yes, it’s possible that the ripped trainer at they gym has better genes, but if you haven’t put in the same reps, it’s impossible to say if you have been dealt a better or worse genetic hand.  Until you work as hard as those you admire, don’t explain away their success as luck.” ~ James Clear, Atomic Habits

              “I am just an average man, but by God I work harder than the average man.” ~ Winston Churchill, via The Way of the Seal

                “Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

                  “Every time you sit down to work, remind yourself: I am delaying gratification by doing this.  I am passing the marshmallow test.  I am earning what my ambition burns for.  I am making an investment in myself instead of in my ego.  Give yourself a little credit for this choice, but not so much, because you’ve got to get back to the task at hand: practicing, working, improving.” ~ Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy

                    “Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work.  It means you’re the least important person in the room – until you change that with results.” ~ Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy

                      “Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.” ~ Rita Mae Brown, via Blog of Jonathan Fields

                        “Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.” ~ Simone Weil, via Solitude