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Best pep talk ever

This is Al Pacino’s locker room speech from the movie ‘Any Given Sunday’.

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The Misfits

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

-Apple Computers Inc


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Set Yourself On Fire

“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.”  -  Fred Shero (Hockey coach)

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Imagination is a wonderful thing. It is the closest thing we have to magic. It feeds the part of ourselves that is not skin and bone, the part of ourselves that we have forgotten all about. Every once in a while something will happen to you and you will glimpse it. You will see someone do something so brilliant or so beautiful that it will take your breathe away. You have been inspired.

You begin to feel the need to do more, be more. You have seen brilliance and beauty and in that moment, what you have is no longer enough.

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