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“Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.”

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Author:Ben Marcus

“I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”

“The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.”

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Book:Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year

Source: Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year

“I took a lie detector test the other day. No, I didn't.”

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Author:Steven Wright

“Money is not the sole or most powerful motivation for many people. A higher and tougher test is to look back and see how you've made the world a better place.”

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Author:Guy Kawasaki

“All great tasks test our motivation. It's easy to court ideas over beers and change the world with napkin sketches, but like most things taken home from bars, new challenges arise the next day. It's in the morning light when work begins, and grand ideas (or barroom conquests) lose their luster. To do interesting things requires work and it's no surprise we abandon demanding passions for simpler, easier, more predictable things.”

“With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.”

“The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.”

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Book:Failing Forward

Source: Failing Forward

“Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.”

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Author:Al Oerter

“Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.”

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Author:Derek Sivers