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• You are a creator; you create with your every thought. You often create by default, for you are getting what you are giving your attention to wanted or unwanted but you know by how it feels if what you are getting (creating) is what you are wanting or if it is not what you are wanting. (Where is your attention focused?)

  Esther Hicks

  Law Of Attraction, Creating, Giving

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• Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. Our delusion is that we should be Transformers and not The Blair Witch Project.

  Ryan Holiday

  Thinking, Media, Ideas

  Ryan Holiday (2013). “Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising (APenguin Special from Portfolio)”, p.11, Penguin

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• If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field.

  Brian Tracy

  Fields, Being The Best, Ifs

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• These are the people who don't believe in evolution or global warming. So, why would they believe default would hurt anything?

  James Carville

  Hurt, Believe, People

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• My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work.

  Gillian Anderson

  Self, Destruction, Bloody

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• Venice is a place where the past is still hanging around, waiting for an appointment with the future; but the future hasn't shown up. In the meantime it is a kind of no man's land, given up by default and occupied by irregulars and their dogs.

  Jack Smith

  Dog, Past, Men

  Jack Smith (1976). “The big orange”

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• Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

  Tim Ferriss

  Effectiveness, Goal, Important

  "The 4-Hour Workweek". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

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• I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.

  Yul Vazquez

  Mother, Real, Kids

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• Become aware of your beliefs and automatic default settings. Bring them into the light of your present, adult knowledge. Gently acknowledge that they are what they are. Then accept that they constitute what you've believed until now, and that you can transform them into beliefs that allow you to fully express who you really are. Without judgment, patiently begin working to change subconscious and limiting beliefs into true expressions of your authentic self.

  Sue Thoele

  Light, Self, Expression

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• Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.

  Tim Ferriss

  Effectiveness, Efficiency, Regard

  "The 4-Hour Workweek". Book by Timothy Ferriss, 2007.

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• All things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances outside our Circle of Influence to shape much of our lives by default. We reactively live the scripts handed to us by family, associates, other people's agendas, the pressures of circumstance - scripts from our earlier years, from our training, our conditioning.

  Stephen Covey

  Self, Years, Circles

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• Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of human psychology is to grab onto comforting beliefs for purely emotional reasons, and then justify those beliefs to ourselves with post-hoc rationalizations.

  Steven Novella

  Emotional, Comforting, Psychology

  "Skeptics' Guide to the Universe" Podcast #285, www.sgutranscripts.org. December 29, 2010.

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• I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Writing, Stories, Way

  "Barnes & Noble interview with Khaled Hosseini". Interview with James Mustich, www.csmonitor.com. November 24, 2008.

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• If newsmen do not tell the truth as they see it because it might make waves, or if their bosses decide something should or should not be broadcast because of Washington or Main Street consequences, we have dishonored ourselves and we have lost the First Amendment by default.

  Richard S. Salant

  America, Boss, Might

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• If India is computer, Congress is its default program.

  Rahul Gandhi

  India, Computer, Program

  "If India is computer, Cong is its default program: Rahul Gandhi". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. August 23, 2013.

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• Presumed consent preserves freedom of choice, but it is different from explicit consent because it shifts the default rule. Under this policy, all citizens would be presumed to be consenting donors, but they would have the opportunity to register their unwillingness to donate.

  Cass Sunstein

  Opportunity, Choices, Different

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• I am not talking about rebelliousness, but giving people time for constructive internal reflection and even daydreaming. A lot of research is suggesting that the more that you demand people's external attention, the less chance you are allowing them to dip into the default mode where daydreams and reflection happen - and lot of great ideas are not going to come from the brute force of work but from personal life experience. Mind-wandering seems to be essential to the creative process, and I don't think a lot of businesses are aware of that fact.

  Scott Barry Kaufman

  Reflection, Thinking, Talking

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• I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.

  Robert Gober

  Art, Thinking, Expression

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• If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in a Government contract terms reasonably calculated to assure its performance even though there be no money loss through a particular default, there is no problem. But answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question, and thereby begging the real one.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Real, Loss, Government

  "Priebe & Sons., Inc. v. United States, 332 U.S. 407". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. November 17, 1947.

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• Good leadership is hard to measure on a daily basis which is why so many default to doing what's easy to measure instead.

  Simon Sinek

  Good Leadership, Easy, Bases

  Twitter post from May 07, 2015

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• The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic financial markets and on the value of the dollar in exchange markets. The Nation can ill afford to allow such a result. The risks, the cost, the disruptions, and the incalculable damage lead me to but one conclusion: the Senate must pass this legislation before the Congress adjourns.

  Ronald Reagan

  Risk, Damage, Serious

  Letter to Majority Leader Howard Baker, November 16, 1983.

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• We believe that 95% of your emotions are determined by the way you talk to yourself as you go throughout your day. The sad fact is that if you do not deliberately and consciously talk to yourself in a positive and constructive way, you will, by default, think about things that will make you unhappy or cause you worry and anxiety. Your mind is like a garden. If you do not deliberately plant flowers and tend carefully, weeds will grow without any encouragement at all.

  Brian Tracy

  Weed, Encouragement, Believe

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 27, 2014

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• What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.

  Tony Judt

  Running, Long, Optimism

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• It is the collective responsibility of the citizens in a modern state to ensure by all means necessary that its government adheres to the rule of law, not just domestically, but internationally. There are no bystanders. No one is entitled to an 'apolitical' exemption from such obligation. Where default occurs, either by citizens endorsement of official criminality or by the failure of citizens to effectively oppose it, liability is incurred by all

  Ward Churchill

  Mean, Responsibility, Bystanders

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• I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

  Catherine Tate

  Negative, Relief, Form

  "The Guardian profile: Catherine Tate" by wen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2005.

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