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“Every error is feedback that points directly toward the next step in growth.”

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Book:The Athlete’s Edge: Unlocking Mental Toughness for Teen Champions: The Young Athlete’s Guide to Overcoming Pressure, Building Confidence, and Dominating the Competition
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“Mental toughness isn't reserved for 'gifted' kids or the ones breaking records. It belongs to anyone willing to put in the mental reps.”

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Book:The Athlete’s Edge: Unlocking Mental Toughness for Teen Champions: The Young Athlete’s Guide to Overcoming Pressure, Building Confidence, and Dominating the Competition
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“Mental toughness is not a genetic gift. It is not something you are born with. It is a skill you train.”

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Book:The Athlete’s Edge: Unlocking Mental Toughness for Teen Champions: The Young Athlete’s Guide to Overcoming Pressure, Building Confidence, and Dominating the Competition
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“Freedom is Chaos. It is the absence of structure, logic, control and discipline. A free person is a chaotic person. I don't want to be free. I enjoy my discipline. I like control. I like having a goal. I find it soothing to work hard. Freedom scares me. There is so little definition to it I wouldn't even know where to start. I don't like freedom. It's a ball of anxiety if you ask me. When I think of free people, I imagine hippies, alcoholics, drug addicts, homeless people, fat people and unscholarly teenagers.”

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Author:Anje Kruger
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“We compete on various levels as humans. Popularity. Intellectual capacity. Social status. Titles. Monetary superiority. Physical strength and fitness. Beauty. Ability to get romantic partners. Power. Influence. Morality. Talents. Skills. Achievements. Awards. Recognition. Personal qualities. Even a nun, a priest of the highest echelon, and the religious worker taking photos with random children in Africa, are competing for superior morality and recognition for their selfless deeds. Just because your inherent needs for recognition differ from those next to you does not mean you are free of them.”

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Author:Anje Kruger
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“You are sculpting yourself. Of course it's painful. Carving every detail you want in your life into the tender fabrics of your own existence. Your body, your mind, your business, your home. Is it not beautiful? How there are those of us that are willing to bear insufferable pain, all to achieve their highest form. And then there's the rest of the world, fragile creatures, porcelain dolls, the unscuplted masses. All too scared to bear the burden. Pain is the seed of power. If you can not tolerate it, you should not compete with those who will.”

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Author:Anje Kruger
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“Power is the result of rigorous self-observation. Self-observation causes a higher degree of self-consciousness, especially of the things we do not like about ourselves, which causes us to change or inadequacies into strengths, and so we achieve power. Power comes from identifying your weaknesses rapidly and eradicating them for good. Assuming that you're correct is the fastest way to remain incorrect. You're probably doing something wrong somewhere, which is why you are in the position where you are instead of where you want to be. The more you ignore it, the worse it gets. You need to stop avoiding it and face the facts. Study yourself to study your weaknesses. And when you do, they will disappear. If I avoid the mirror I will eventually be unable to face it. If I avoid my balance sheet, it won't get any bigger. So I watch myself. I observe and I criticize. I exercise self-discipline and judgement, reward and punishment, a focused routine of self-evaluation.”

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Author:Anje Kruger
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“You testified that your son was drafted for the NFL," Zara said, the tone of her voice changing from demanding to conversational. "Did he get his love of the sport from you?" "I played in college," the witness said. "Wide receiver. I was a lock for a top-ten draft selection until I tore a ligament and that was the end for me." "You must have caught some good ones in your time." Now her voice was all warmth and sympathy, tinged with awe. The witness's eyes grew misty. "I miss those days." Plaintiff's counsel objected on the basis of irrelevance, and the judge sustained. Zara walked back to her table and consulted her notes. Was that it? He'd been expecting some theatrics, a smoking gun, or even a witness reduced to tears. Even without any legal training, he could see her cross-examination hadn't elicited any particularly useful information, and yet she didn't seem perturbed. Zara bent down to grab something from her bag. "Hut!" She spun around and threw a foam football at the plaintiff, her shout echoing through the courtroom, freezing everyone in place. The plaintiff shot out of his seat and took two steps to the side, hands in the air. "I got it. I got it." With a jump he grabbed the football and held it up, victorious. His smile faded as he stared at the stunned crowd, clearly realizing what he'd just done. "Objection." Plaintiff's counsel glared at Zara. "What was that?" "I believe it's called a Hail Mary pass." Zara smiled at the judge. "No further questions.”

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Book:The Singles Table
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“In addition to building a strong team, you also have to motivate that team when their spirits are down, show your pride in them when they perform well, and be there when they make mistakes. You have to invest in their training and start treating them as partners in your business’ success.”

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Book:17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
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“Au total les gens performants voire excellents ne passent pas leur temps à maugréer intérieurement, à se faire des reproches, se disant inconsciemment ou consciemment « qu’au fond, à un instant donné, à l’impossible, nul n’est tenu »; ils refusent ainsi de se donner mauvaise confiance de n’être pas parfaits ou d’avoir fait quelque chose d’imparfait, en cet instant de travers. Ils essaient plutôt de comprendre les obstacles qui ont empêché une réussite et s’efforcent d’y remédier. Ils ont le courage, sinon l’inclination à se remettre en cause et à remettre en cause leurs propres performances et compétences.”

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Author:Abdou Karim GEUYE écrivain Le Coeur et L'Esprit
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“That’s because at the Flow Genome Project10 we study the relationship between altered states and peak performance, focused primarily on the experience known as flow. Defined as an “optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform our best,” flow refers to those “in the zone” moments where focus gets so intense that everything else disappears. Action and awareness start to merge. Our sense of self vanishes. Our sense of time as well. And all aspects of performance, both mental and physical, go through the roof.”

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Book:Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
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“If you believe that the show you’re making will improve the world, there’s nothing saying that your goals and self-interests and someone else’s goals and interests have to be mutually exclusive. They can align.”

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Book:The Contemporary Circus Handbook: A Guide to Creating, Funding, Producing, Organizing, and Touring Shows for the 21st Century
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“I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.”

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Author:Kamand Kojouri
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“Dance less in motion and more in spirit; awaken the dreamer within.”

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Author:Shah Asad Rizvi
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“Music does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation.”

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Author:Shah Asad Rizvi
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“Soar like an eagle beyond skies of heavens reach; as wings of dreams dance with winds of reality.”

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Author:Shah Asad Rizvi
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“Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there are those... whose existence is dance,”

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Author:Shah Asad Rizvi
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“When the melody plays, footsteps move, heart sings and spirit begin to dance.”

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Author:Shah Asad Rizvi
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“In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're singing a song about breaking up or being in a bad way. For an actor this would be anathema, it would destroy the illusion, but with singing one can have it both ways. As a singer, you can be transparent and reveal yourself on stage, in that moment, and at the same time be the person whose story is being told in the song. Not too many kinds of performance allow that.”

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Book:How Music Works
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