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Theodore Roosevelt – succeed

Mind Quote / Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States / 1858 - 1919 / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph – Mountains of Pontresina, Switzerland / LoadingBookmark

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

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Aristotle – habit

Mind Quote / Chaikidiki, Greece / 384 BC – 322 BC / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Small crab, Alexandria Bay, Noosa Australia / LoadingBookmark

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

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Albert Einstein – walk alone

Mind Quote / Ulm, Germany / 1879 – 1955 / Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph – Path in Kata Tjuta, NT, Australia / LoadingBookmark

“If you follow the crowd, you will go no further than the crowd. But if you walk alone, and find your own way, you will likely find yourself in places no one has ever been before.”

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Alexander Graham Bell – man

Mind Quote / Edinburgh, Scotland / 1847 – 1922 / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph – Romulus and Remus, Rome Italy / LoadingBookmark

“A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.”

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Ridley Scott – gladiator

Mind Movie / 2000 / Epic Historical Drama / Set in Rome / 155 min / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph – The Colosseum, Rome Italy / LoadingBookmark

Gladiator is the story of a Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius who finds himself embroiled in aftermath of a betrayal of an ambitious emperor’s son. Through a series of…

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George Bernard Shaw – circumstance

Mind Quote / Dublin, Republic of Ireland / 1856 – 1950 / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph – Strzelecki monument, Jindabyne Australia / LoadingBookmark

“I don’t believe in circumstance, the people that get on in this world, are the people that get up and look for their circumstances they want, and if they don’t find them, they make them.”

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Laozi – act

Mind Quote / Henan, China / 604BC-531BC / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Beetles in the garden, Sydney Australia / LoadingBookmark

“If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.”

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Franklin D. Roosevelt – tomorrow

Mind Quote / Hyde Park, New York, United States / 1882 - 1945 / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph – Pebble beach, Kaikoura New Zealand / LoadingBookmark

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”

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The Elton John Band – philadelphia freedom

Mind Music / 1975 / Rock / 5.38 min / Photographer - Janet Zenari / Photograph – Sail & Flight, Cronulla Australia / LoadingBookmark

Philadelphia freedom was written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin and was released as a single by the The Elton John Band. It reached number 1 in the US charts…

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Sigmund Freud – strength

Mind Quote / Freiberg in Mähren, Moravia, Austrian Empire – now Příbor, Czech Republic / 1856 - 1939 / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Arc de Triomphe, Paris France / LoadingBookmark

“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”

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Kool & the Gang – celebration

Mind Music / 1980 / Post Disco / 3.39 min / Photographer - Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph - Darling Harbour, Sydney Australia / LoadingBookmark

Celebration is a song written and performed by Kool and the Gang. Celebration appears on the album Celebrate. It held top position for two weeks on the Billboard 100 chart in 1981…

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T. S. Eliot – beginning

Mind Quote / St. Louis, Missouri, United States / 1888 – 1965 / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Face Arthouse, Sydney Australia / LoadingBookmark

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.”

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