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"If you can make a decision with analysis, you should do so. But it turns out in life that your most important decisions are always made with instinct and intuition, taste, heart."
Jeff Bezos
"Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life."
Jeff Bezos
"People who are right a lot listen a lot, and they change their mind a lot. People who are right a lot change their mind without a lot of new data. They wake up and reanalyze things and change their mind. If you don’t change your mind frequently, you’re goi"
Jeff Bezos
"You have to pay a price for your distinctiveness, and it’s worth it. The fairy tale version of ‘be yourself’ is that all the pain stops as soon as you allow your distinctiveness to shine. That version is misleading. Being yourself is worth it, but don’t ex"
Jeff Bezos
"Everything you do and every decision you make should be from a place of good. You should always be striving to make the world a better place."
Les Brown
"If you don't program yourself, life will program you."
Les Brown
"To sit on an idea or fail to act on a goal is not really goal-setting, but wishful thinking."
Les Brown
"Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way."
Les Brown
"Act the way you want to be and soon you'll be the way you act."
Les Brown
"Success is both very personal and relative, depending on where you would like to be in your own life."
Les Brown
"I often speak to people who wonder why they continue to fail. In many situations, they are concentrating their efforts in the wrong places period."
Les Brown
"You can complain about the direction of your life all you want, but until you sit in the driver’s seat and begin to drive yourself, you aren't going to get where you want to go!"
Les Brown
"Are the people around you holding you back or empowering you to move forward? If you life is going nowhere, take a look at the group of people you hang around with."
Les Brown
"One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you."
Les Brown
"You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life."
Les Brown
"You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are."
Les Brown
"Making things happen in your life requires a faith, or an ability to believe that is unshakable, regardless of your circumstances."
Les Brown
"Set a goal that's meaningful and compelling enough, and your skills, your knowledge and your effectiveness will expand in order to reach that goal."
Les Brown
"Not having goals is like having no idea where you want to go when you step up to an airline counter to buy a ticket."
Les Brown
"Think big when you set your goals. Dare to think big and then set a series of smaller goals to get you there."
Les Brown