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Compromise
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Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.
-John D. MacDonald
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Desires
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The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
-John D. MacDonald
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Excellence
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To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.
-John D. MacDonald
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Goals
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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.
-John D. MacDonald
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You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...
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Imagination
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We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.
-John D. MacDonald
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Integrity
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Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.
-John D. MacDonald, The Turquoise Lament
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Books by and about John D. MacDonald
