The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

Courage

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

- Mark Twain

Compassion

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

Motivation

"Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously."

- Mark Twain

Teamwork

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

Ambition

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"Tuesday is a day to finish what’s left undone on Monday and prepare for what’s coming on Wednesday."

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"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well."

- Mark Twain

Productivity

"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."

- Bruce Lee

Productivity

"We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things."

- Herb Kelleher

Productivity

"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."

- Dale Carnegie

Productivity