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“Successful businesspeople retain a quality most others not only lack but often fail to comprehend, and that's the unrelenting drive to convert a vision into reality. They are driven to realize this goal in a manner that appears to defy logic among others who lack this drive.”

Reality Goal Realizing Quality Vision Successful Failing Logic Driven Successful Business Unrelenting

Book:Driven: How to Succeed in Business and in Life

Source: Driven: How to Succeed in Business and in Life

“The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.”

World Mind Mean Made Reason Form Values Memories Acting Brain Principles Failing Diversity Computer Program Historical Driven Scales Internals Categories Criteria Constraints Analogies

Author:Gerald Edelman

“Look at me as an example. I don't have the best education or the best looks. Where I'm from in Nigeria is not entertainment driven, it's the northern part of Nigeria and over there they hardly pay attention to entertainment. I came out of that place to attain this level of success. I always say if I can get here with all of these imperfections then no one has the excuse to fail in life.”

Ifs Looks I Can Levels Pay Attention Failing Example Entertainment Excuse Driven Pay Attention Imperfection Look At Me Nigeria Best Education

Author:Ice Prince

“My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!”

May Failing Military Position Driven Troops

Author:Stonewall Jackson

“Data-driven predictions can succeed-and they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of failure rise. Before we demand more of our data, we need to demand more of ourselves.”

Needs Process Roles Failing Succeed Demand Deny Driven Data Odds Predictions

Book:The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

Source: The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

“We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."”

Ifs Want Writing Trying Wells Enough Dream Pain Pleasure Failing Achieve Smart Driven Educated Attractive Rejection Our Dreams Stop Trying Well Educated

Author:Tony Robbins