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 The first hour after waking up, no talking. 
 Start where you are.
Use what you have.
Do what you can. 
 People do not decide their future, they decide their habits and their habits decide their future. 
 The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once. 
 The first step is always the hardest. 
 Don’t react. Cut them silently. 
 If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. 
 What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. 
 Three things never come back: time, word and opportunity. 
 Karma has no menu, you get served what you deserve. 
 Confuse them with your silence, shock them with your actions. 
 When you see something beautiful in someone tell them. It may take a second to say, but for them it could lost a life. 
 Good things come to those who wait. Better things come to those who don’t give up and the best things come to those who follow their dreams and belive. 
 Safty first. 
 Sleep is your super power. 
 The most important thing to buy is a peace of mind. 
 Be patient with yourself, becoming takes time. 
 Listen to the silence, it’s telling the truth. 
 Design should be simple, this makes it so complicated. 
 The more you try easyer it gets. 
 Every time that you don’t give up you win. 
 Don’t give up. 
 Each pencil has its eraser. 
 Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn. 
 Keep it simple. 
 The most foundamental thing to understand about life, is that your life is the most important think to take care of. 
 Keep your promises. 
 You win every fight that you stay out of. 
 Be selfish about your health. 
 Buy only things that you will love to hold forever. 
 The only thing that definitely will stop your progress is stop training. 
 Kaizen and be sure that the progress will come. 
 Just stay in the game and be sure that the progress will come. 
 Don’t listen what people are telling, but look what people are doing. 
 Character is who you are when no one is looking. 
 Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. 
 If you're in a bad situation, don't worry; it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry; it'll change. 
 The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. 
 Everything has been figured out, except how to live. (Jean-Paul Sartre) 
 The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. 
 If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. 
 Action is the foundational key to all success. (Pablo Picasso) 
 Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. (George Orwell) 
 Hold a true friend with both your hands. (Nigerian Proverb) 
 Don't take life seriously, because you can't come out of it alive. 
 The best way to predict the future is to invent it. 
 Always start with a plan, and of course you’ll still need to be able to adapt and improvise. 
 You must cultivate two mindsets. One of the tactician/technician when things go well, the other of the improviser/adapter/survivor when things go badly. 
 To teach is to learn twice. 
 Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. (Michael Jordan) 
 In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. 
 For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. 
 All things are difficult before they are easy. 
 There is no substitute for hard work. (Thomas A. Edison) 
 It's time to re-appreciate the original software: paper. 
 A professional is someone who can do his best when he doesn't feel like it. 
 A leader is a dealer in hope. 
 Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. 
 Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards. 
 Be gentle and kind with your words. Most people are struggling. Life is hard.
Lift people up if you can. Be less judgmental and more helpful. 
 You need to be skilled at shooting, but you also need patience when pulling the trigger. 
 Technology is the answer.
But what was the question ? 
 Only the paranoid survive. 
 Buy only things that you will love to hold forever. 
 L'uomo che sposta le montage comincia portando via i sassi più piccoli. (Confucio) 
 L'insegnante mediocre racconta.
Il bravo insegnante spiega. 
L'insegnante eccellente dimostra. 
Il maestro ispira. (Socrate) 
 L'uomo più ricco è quello
che si accontenta di poco,
perché la contentezza è la
ricchezza data dalla natura. (Socrate) 
 I hear and I forget. I see and I remember.
I do and I understand. 
 The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage. 
 Ne plašite se samoće, niti kasnog braka.
Plašite se života provedenog sa pogrešnom osobom. To je protraćeni i odbačeni život. 
 Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. 
 When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. 
 Never love till you can buy love. Then love a girl that money can't buy. 
 Nobody cares about your story until you win, so win. 
 One of the best thing I ever did was stop telling people what's going on in my life. 
 Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest. 
 Čuvaj se, bićeš potreban sebi, kad te na kraju svi ostave. 
 After the game, the King and the Pawn go into the same box. 
 Mutna voda se najbolje razbistri ako je ostavite na miru. Sijeti te se toga svaki put kad vas nešto muči. 
 People who do not understand your silence, will never understand your words. 
 Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from behind, an idiot from any direction. 
 A mistake that makes you humble is better than an achievement that makes you arrogant. 
 If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room. 
 Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said. 
 The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said. 
 A man who is a master of patience is a master of everything else. 
 Better to admit you walked through the wrong door than spend your life in the wrong room. 
 Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated. 
 You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free. 
 There is a limit to power, but no limit to skill 
 We work jobs we hate, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like. 
 Make money so that you can walk out of situations you don't like. 
 Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. (Nikola Tesla) 
 I'm a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more luck I have. 
 Growing your own food is like printing your own money. 
 Start small. Make the barrier to start so low, that you would feel stupid for not getting it done. 
 Money is a tool, not the goal.
Freedom is the goal. 
 Walking helps clear your mind. It offers you a different perspective. 
 Start slowly, because direction is more important than speed. 
 Od svega sta je moglo biti, na kraju uvijek bude ono sta je moralo biti.
(Ivo Andrić) 
 Work on the things people can't take away from you:
• Your body
• Your skills
• Your mindset
• Your character
• Your knowledge
• Your work ethic
• Your bitcoin
This is how you become unstoppable.