A lot of people approach risk ...

A lot of people approach risk as if it\'s the enemy when it\'s really fortune\'s accomplice.
A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.
 Sting

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
One of the rewards of success is freedom. the ability to do whatever you like.
That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it in my accent when I talk, I'm an Englishman in New York. See me walking down Fifth Avenue, a walking cane here at my side. I take it everywhere I walk, I'm an Englishman in New York. I'm an alien I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York.