{"author":"Ashish Patel","author_id":"Ashish+Patel","total_quotes":20,"quotes":[{"text":"What breaks you down is not the amount of pressure you feel at one time, but it’s the way you perceive and handle it.","author":"Ashish Patel","tags":["ability-to-handle","challenge","feelings-of-weakness","handling-emotion","negative-thoughts","perceptions","pressure","setbacks","weakness-and-strength","workload"],"id":23518,"author_id":"Ashish+Patel"},{"text":"Formal education and current position can define your worthiness. What makes you extraordinary is defined by your attitude towards others.","author":"Ashish Patel","tags":["attitude","attitude-toward-life","behavior","down-to-earth","extraordinary","humbleness","motivational","success","successful-living","worthiness"],"id":36370,"author_id":"Ashish+Patel"},{"text":"When efforts that are wisely executed, the situation and condition don't affect the performance.","author":"Ashish Patel","tags":["achievement","challenge","choices","commitment","courage","decision-making","determination","dream","efforts","elegance","execution","fear","fearless","fearlessness","focus","give-up","goals","hardwork","implementation","inspiration","judgement","leadership","passion","perfection","performance","planning","praise","productivity","result","rewards","success","talent","team-work","under-pressure"],"id":85188,"author_id":"Ashish+Patel"},{"text":"Sometimes what you see is not real, and the reality is not what you see. Somewhere between both these reasoning resides a fact: where there is a lack of trust and confidence, perception will always differ with reality.","author":"Ashish Patel","tags":["confidence-and-attitude","lack-of-trust","perception","reality-of-life","trust","trustworthy"],"id":98869,"author_id":"Ashish+Patel"},{"text":"Mind is greedy. When you sense the benefits with people who previously thought rubbish about you, the mind forgoes those thoughts and inclines toward those people only to gain optimal benefits.","author":"Ashish Patel","tags":["arrogance","bias","brains","disgust","fairness","greed","mind","mind-games","perception","perspective","politics","psychology","temptation","thinking","thoughts","unfair-advantage"],"id":117783,"author_id":"Ashish+Patel"},{"text":"Advantages never comes free. You have to create it the way you want it!","author":"Ashish Patel","tags":["acute","appreciative","astute","deep","discerning","far-sighted","imaginative","incisive","intelligent","intuitive","judicious","keen","penetrating","penetrative","perceptive","percipient","perspicacious","prescient","profound-visionary","razor-sharp","sagacious","sensitive","sharp","sharp-witted","shrewd","thoughtful","wise"],"id":175720,"author_id":"Ashish+Patel"},{"text":"A real winner is the one who has the ability to find success by self; who chases success at his/her own will, and never gives a chance to attribute credit of his/her success to his/her referees. No matter how slow he/she goes; how painful are the financial issues; how long it takes to find self; and how likely he/she persevere, in the end, the fruits of success would give enough pleasure than the pleasure earned through references.","author":"Ashish Patel","tags":["capability","dependency","financial-issues","job-references","over-dependence","own-will","ownership","passion","personal-success","real-winner","references","reliance-on-others","self-ability","success-at-work","success-in-life","true-success"],"id":241803,"author_id":"Ashish+Patel"},{"text":"When you do what someone else wants you to do, you are wasting your time. Don’t get tricked by other people’s thinking. The life is yours and so are goals. Believe in your own intuitions, speak your own voice, and follow what your heart says. The rest is secondary.","author":"Ashish Patel","tags":["intuition","life-and-living","life-lessons","positive-thinking","self-belief"],"id":266248,"author_id":"Ashish+Patel"},{"text":"Complacency traps people and besiege them until longer period. The biggest challenge is to become aware of its existence and stepping out of it quickly.","author":"Ashish Patel","tags":["challenges","competition","complacency","contentment","gratification","relaxing","satisfaction","self-righteousness","smugness"],"id":269266,"author_id":"Ashish+Patel"},{"text":"Every day I see lot of things cluttered in my surroundings. But that neither stresses me nor does it puts me down. Instead, it tells me that things will give you trouble if you see it as trouble.","author":"Ashish Patel","tags":["clutter","motivation","positive-attitude","positive-thinking","stress","trouble"],"id":314932,"author_id":"Ashish+Patel"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}