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Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

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[The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.
 Bashar al-Assad
The Warrior Diet is the only diet today that challenges all common dietary concepts and offers a real alternative—guidelines that are not based on superficial restrictions, but rather on true principles of human nutrition.
 Ori Hofmekler
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.
My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.
 John Wesley

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Your success in life and work will be determined by the kinds of habits that you develop over time. The habit of setting priorities, overcoming procrastination, and getting on with your most important task is a mental and physical skill. As such, this habit is learnable through practice and repetition, over and over again, until it locks into your subsconscious mind and becomes a permanent part of your behaviour.
There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
You can only grow if you're willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.