"Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day."

Jenner, Bruce on effort
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"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won t."

Jenner, Bruce on effort   

"To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from your plan. Once you can see, touch and feel your objective, all you have to do is pull back and put all your strength behind it, and you'll hit your target every time."

Jenner, Bruce on focus
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"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."

Johnson, Ben on advice   

"Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid."

Johnson, Lady Bird on fear
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"There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example."

Huxley, Aldous on desire
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"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

Huxley, Aldous on education
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"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."

Huxley, Aldous on education
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"Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of true science."

Huxley, Aldous on experts   

"We are all geniuses up to the age of ten."

Huxley, Aldous on genius   

"Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know."

Huxley, Aldous on ignorance
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"A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention."

Huxley, Aldous on ignorance
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"Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted."

Huxley, Aldous on apathy
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"Every man's memory is his private literature."

Huxley, Aldous on memory
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"Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors."

Huxley, Aldous on mistakes
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"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

Huxley, Aldous on music
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"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."

Huxley, Aldous on mystics and mysticism
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"The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly."

Huxley, Aldous on art
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"An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support"

Huxley, Aldous on atheism
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"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."

Huxley, Aldous on popularity
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"Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them."

Huxley, Aldous on proverbs   

"Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ROLLING IN THE MUCK IS NOT THE BEST WAY OF GETTING CLEAN."

Huxley, Aldous on repentance   

"There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God."

Huxley, Aldous on sacrifice
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"Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness."

Huxley, Aldous on science
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"Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something."

Huxley, Aldous on self-confidence
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"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

Huxley, Aldous on self-improvement
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"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."

Huxley, Aldous on solitude
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"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different."

Huxley, Aldous on charm
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"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail."

Huxley, Aldous on talent   

"Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking."

Huxley, Aldous on thoughts and thinking
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"Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself."

Huxley, Aldous on thoughts and thinking   

"We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look."

Huxley, Aldous on tragedies
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"So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them miserable."

Huxley, Aldous on tyranny   

"Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?"

Huxley, Aldous on death
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"Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."

Huxley, Thomas H. on facts   

"A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words."

Huxley, Thomas H. on facts   

"There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life."

Huxley, Thomas H. on failure   

"We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it."

Huxley, Thomas H. on influence   

"There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off."

Huxley, Thomas H. on integrity   

"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."

Huxley, Thomas H. on knowledge