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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass. ↗

— Robert Collier

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The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. ↗

— Robert Collier

#first #first principle #knowing #planting #principle

But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up. ↗

— Bootsy Collins

#afford #around #back #cartoons #coming

If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question. ↗

— James Collins

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We are all human and I want to relate that message to all people. ↗

— Bootsy Collins

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I remember when I went to try out for the Olympic team in 1972, Coach Iba told me he didn't care how many points I could score because if I couldn't guard anybody, I wasn't going to make the team. I knew to make the team I had to become a better defender. If you can play offense, you can defend. It just comes down to competitive will. ↗

— Doug Collins

#because #become #better #care #coach

I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships with a super-duper star like Kobe Bryant. Those championship teams with Michael Jordan certainly had a great, great player. ↗

— Doug Collins

#certainly #championship #championships #different #different ways

People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#because #drum #engineers #good #i

That the potential to become Level 5 exists in you and me and the people we work with and that it is then a process or a journey to nurture that seed... in a culture by and large that doesn't reinforce it. ↗

— James Collins

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The answer I have is, you know, there a lot of things you can try to build to last. And what we try to do in our work is to come up with ideas that will last. Ideas that will stand the test of time. ↗

— James Collins

#build #come #i #ideas #know