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It takes 10,000 hours to be an expert or elite performer, in any industry, science and art form
- Analysis Theory

Have a thick skin.
- Anon

The more you sweat in training, the less you'll bleed in battle.
- Army Basic Training Saying

Pray for what you want. Work for what you need.
- Anon

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
- Mark Victor Hansen

The best thing you can do is keep a journal of your venture. Most people won't and that is a shame. This tool is probably one of your best teachers. There is nothing like learning from your mistakes and knowing exactly how they happened. It is also useful when bad things happen.
- Americaninventor.com

Stop comparing yourself to others. This is easy to say and difficult to do, but it is essential.
- Anon.

Buy a piece of art that disturbs you. Stimulate your senses in thought-provoking ways.
Don’t stick with only like-minded people. Have people around that disagree with you.
Say your problems out loud.
Do It Yourself: Create or repair things without the aid of paid professionals. Repair, sew, cook, build, weave, paint, etc.

BEING BETTER IS BETTER
You will create new brain cells by learning new things at any age.
- Kathy Sierra

The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived, is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration. Like the unknown principle of animal life, it frequently restores health and vigor to the constitution, in spite, not only of the disease, but of the absurd prescriptions of the doctor.
- Adam Smith

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