392 quotes
“If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges”
— Pat Riley
“Learning is never a waste of time”
— Richard Templar
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
— Rumi
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
— Seneca
“Conquering oneself is the true victory.”
— Plato
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual you will have to settle for the ordinary”
— Jim Rohn
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”
— Unknown
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves.”
— Viktor Frankl
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
“Even at this moment, you are growing.”
— Anonymous
“Today is the result of yesterday and the seed of tomorrow.”
“Education is the process of engraving what kind of person one will become onto the soul.”
“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church”
— Tertullian
“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.”
— Epictetus
“People become what they think about.”
— Maurice Maeterlinck
“Life isnt about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“He who moves not forward goes backward.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions.”
— Robin Sharma
“A man's errors are his portals of discovery.”
— James Joyce
“The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do”
— Tim Ferriss
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
“The good life is a process not a state of being”
— Carl Rogers
“To teach is to learn twice.”
— Joseph Joubert
“Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
“The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth.”
— Frederick Douglass
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready, the teacher will disappear.”
“Life is about discovering yourself. The more I know what I want, the more I know who I am.”
— James Michener
“If you schedule deep work like a non-negotiable meeting, execution becomes cleaner.”
— DuckyHeals
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
“You need to fail to learn how to overcome failure.”
“The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of being some day a commander.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”
— Walt Whitman
“Failure is evidence of growth.”
“Momentum returns quickly when you protect your first hour for meaningful work.”
“Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not.”
— John Maxwell
“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”
— Confucius
“The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.”
— Joanna Macy
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“I am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to do it”
— Pablo Picasso
“The world is a great book, of which those who never stir from home read only a page.”
— Augustine of Hippo
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.”
— James Clear
“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”
— Erich Fromm
“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“Be thankful for what you have and you will end up having more.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“Becoming is better than being”
— Carol Dweck
“Learning never exhausts the mind”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
“One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.”
— Lao Tzu
“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”
— Abraham Maslow
“You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new”
— Brian Tracy
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things and faith transforms each defeat into growth”
“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”
— Og Mandino
“Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.”
— Paul Tillich
“Growth in compassion happens through those we welcome into our lives especially the vulnerable”
— Jean Vanier
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
— John F. Kennedy
“If you improve one repeatable process each day, opportunities start to multiply.”
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Momentum returns quickly when you document what works and repeat it.”
“Real love always brings about growth in compassion and understanding for both the giver and receiver”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Move out of your comfort zone you can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new”
“It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.”
— Wendell Berry
“Momentum returns quickly when you keep promises to yourself when no one checks.”
“If you grow by just 1% every day, you will be 37 times better in a year.”
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
— Neale Donald Walsch
“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
— Bertrand Hamilton
“Challenges make me grow.”
“You cannot stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
— Albert Einstein
“Momentum returns quickly when you say no to work that does not matter.”
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
“Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.”
— Aeschylus
“If you review your priorities every morning, momentum becomes easier to keep.”
“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”
“To be fully alive fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest”
— Pema Chodron
“Everything is figureoutable.”
— Marie Forleo
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
— Anaïs Nin
“Today's hardship becomes tomorrow's strength.”
“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday not to who someone else is today and let time measure your growth”
— Jordan Peterson
“Do one thing every day that scares you”
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
“Patience is a bitter fruit, but its fruit is sweet.”
— Aristotle
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
— Khalil Gibran
“Authentic happiness derives from raising the bar for yourself not comparing yourself to others”
— Martin Seligman
“The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.”
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
“If you write down the next step before ending the day, momentum becomes easier to keep.”
“Growth and comfort do not coexist”
— Ginni Rometty
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does love is a battle love is a war love is a growing up”
— James Baldwin
“The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you build systems that survive low motivation, execution becomes cleaner.”
“In a day when you do not come across any problems you can be sure you are traveling in a wrong path.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“No man ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and he is not the same man”
— Heraclitus
“What you resist not only persists but will grow in size”
— Carl Jung
“The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.”
— Bernard Baruch
“To be fully alive fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”
“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”
“Resilience is the strength and speed of our response to adversity and we can build it it is not fixed”
— Sheryl Sandberg
“It is more difficult to want to know myself than not to know myself.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Man perfects himself through study.”
— Kant
“To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”
— Samuel Johnson
“I am still learning.”
— Michelangelo
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
“Do not be ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.”
“Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.”
— Francis de Sales
“If you finish one hard task before noon, progress becomes visible.”
“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.”
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through”
— Maya Angelou
“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to tolerate insecurity.”
“Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.”
— Blaise Pascal
“When you know better, you do better.”
“The only journey is the one within.”
“If you trade speed for clarity at key decisions, progress becomes visible.”
“If you protect recovery so your effort is sustainable, opportunities start to multiply.”
“All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of living. One must also leave behind the self that one has begun to outgrow.”
— Lafcadio Hearn
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
“Dont live the same year 75 times and call it a life.”
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
“Leaders are not born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.”
— Vince Lombardi
“Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you ever get polished?”
“When you appreciate the good, the good appreciates.”
— Tal Ben-Shahar
“Becoming better than yesterday, that's real growth.”
“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.”
— Mortimer Adler
“I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.”
— Erica Jong
“When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.”
“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time.”
“Have you not learned great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you?”
“In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”
“Just because you are CEO do not think you have landed the job is not about the corner office”
— Indra Nooyi
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
— Zig Ziglar
“Nothing can be gained without pain.”
“Momentum returns quickly when you raise the quality of your inputs.”
“Small daily wins become the story people call overnight success.”
“When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.”
— Iyanla Vanzant
“It is no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
— Lewis Carroll
“My dad encouraged us to fail growing up he would ask us what we failed at that week”
— Sara Blakely
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know”
“We do not grow absolutely chronologically we grow sometimes in one dimension and not in another”
“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”
— Anthony J. D'Angelo
“If you keep meetings short and decisions clear, progress becomes visible.”
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
“Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.”
— George Iles
“Thought without study is vain.”
“Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving natures laws wrong it learned to walk without having feet”
— Tupac Shakur
“The good life is a process, not a state of being.”
“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”
— John C. Maxwell
“Today's regret can become tomorrow's resolution.”
“Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development.”
— Hal Elrod
“Momentum returns quickly when you choose consistency over intensity.”
“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
“That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.”
“Know thyself.”
— Socrates
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
“Faith is not something to grasp it is a state to grow into through daily practice and devotion”
“Adversity makes humans stronger.”
“If you keep your standards when no one is watching, stress drops and focus rises.”
“True skills grow in times of quiet growth.”
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
— George Washington
“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.”
— Gail Sheehy
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
— Plutarch
“Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.”
“Constant self-improvement is the best investment.”
“No mud, no lotus.”
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone”
“The iron ore thinks itself senselessly tortured in the furnace, but the tempered blade looks back and knows better.”
“Solitude is not a private therapeutic place but the place of conversion”
— Henri Nouwen
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
— Henri Bergson
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
“Effort does not betray.”
— Kim Yuna
“Things do not change; we change.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.”
— Steve Maraboli
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”
“Every artist was first an amateur”
“Momentum returns quickly when you close the loop on small commitments.”
“If you treat time as an investment, not a container, confidence becomes earned.”
“You were not born to shrink down to less but to blossom into more of who you really are”
— Sonya Renee Taylor
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves.”
— Anatole France
“Learn silence with the learned speak with the ignorant in silence we grow”
— Pythagoras
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom”
— Anais Nin
“Be grateful for small achievements, they are the beginning of big accomplishments.”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.”
“A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.”
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday not to who someone else is today”
“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.”
— Chinese Proverb
“Dont wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“If roses can grow through concrete then so can you”
— Nikita Gill
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“Challenges make me stronger.”
“If you are not getting better you are getting worse”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust
“Leaders multiply talent by giving people room to grow.”
“It is not daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away the unessential.”
“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
“Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. Creativity is that courage made visible.”
— E.E. Cummings
“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.”
— Euripides
“The battles that count are not the ones for gold medals the struggles within yourself are the ones that matter”
— Jesse Owens
“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”
“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
— Louisa May Alcott
“We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.”
— Max DePree
“I consider knowing myself to be the most important.”
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.”
— Brene Brown
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
— John Quincy Adams
“I always did something I was a little not ready to do I think that is how you grow”
— Marissa Mayer
“The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life”
“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”
“Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.”
— Fred Rogers
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”
— Jack Welch
“Small achievements build great confidence.”
“I have grown most not from victories, but setbacks.”
— Serena Williams
“Momentum returns quickly when you simplify your plan until it is executable.”
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance.”
“Becoming is better than being.”
“If you practice the fundamentals relentlessly, results become repeatable.”
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
“Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.”
— Nicolas Chamfort
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
“To truly understand is to acknowledge one's mistakes.”
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
“If you turn plans into calendar blocks, confidence becomes earned.”
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”
“Run my dear from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings.”
— Hafiz
“If you prepare when the pressure is low, results become repeatable.”
“The seed of God is in us if the seed had a good wise and industrious cultivator it would thrive all the more and grow up to God”
— Meister Eckhart
“Knowledge is power, but using it is growth.”
— Robert Ingersoll
“What we pay attention to grows so what are you attending to”
— adrienne maree brown
“No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig and if you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time and faith for growth”
“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.”
“Momentum returns quickly when you solve root causes instead of symptoms.”
— Seneca the Younger
“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.”
— Harold Wilson
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
“The years teach much which the days never know.”
“We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man true nobility is being superior to your former self”
— Ernest Hemingway
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars”
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
“Momentum returns quickly when you ship drafts and improve in public.”
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
— Seneca the Elder
“Working is growing”
— Karl Marx
— Bertrand de Jouvenel
“Man must transcend himself.”
— Nietzsche
“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.”
“We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.”
— Bryan White
“Learning how to grow, that is the most important thing we can do.”
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
— Winston Churchill
“The lotus flower blooms most beautifully from the deepest and thickest mud.”
“In any given moment we have two options to step forward into growth or to step back into safety”
“You outgrow limits by keeping promises to yourself.”
“The good life in family is a process not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”
“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”
— Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
“When you think everything is someone elses fault you will suffer a lot”
— Dalai Lama
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
“We become what we think”
— Burdingha
“Men learn while they teach.”
“Learning is open to everyone.”
“Growth comes from changing little by little every day.”
“Your future changes when your standards change.”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
“Great things never came from comfort zones.”
“Family is both the cradle and the crucible of our becoming.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“You are not defined by your past. You are prepared by your past.”
— Joel Osteen
“Momentum returns quickly when you do the obvious work others keep delaying.”
“The soul that is not trained by experience has learned nothing.”
— Hazrat Ali ibn Abi Talib
“Life is a school, and living is learning.”
— Henry Ford
“When we were children we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability.”
— Madeleine LEngle
“Momentum returns quickly when you focus on completion before optimization.”
“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”
— George Eliot
“The truth will set you free but first it will make you uncomfortable”
— Gloria Steinem
“Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.”
“A person becomes what they think.”
“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”
— Masanobu Fukuoka
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.”
“The process makes you stronger than the outcome.”
“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”
“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”
“Momentum returns quickly when you build feedback loops into your workflow.”
“Thought without learning is useless.”
“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem.”
— Thomas Szasz
“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better stronger richer quicker or smarter”
— Miyamoto Musashi
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
— Paulo Coelho
“Defeat myself today.”
— Dante
“When you feel limits, you are in the process of growing.”
“You do not have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.”
— Les Brown
“Change is the end result of all true learning.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“I have forced myself to contradict myself to avoid conforming to my own taste”
— Marcel Duchamp
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.”
— Wayne Dyer
“Momentum returns quickly when you measure progress weekly instead of guessing.”
“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops but the cultivation and perfection of human beings”
“Momentum returns quickly when you act on feedback before it goes stale.”
“Make an effort to improve little by little.”
“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”
“The process creates more value than the result.”
“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”
“Doing your best in small tasks is the beginning of big dreams.”
“The world is a great book, of which they who never stir from home read only a page.”
— Saint Augustine
“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.”
— Melody Beattie
“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”
“Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.”
— Mandy Hale
“To move to the next stage, you must let go of the familiar.”
“Only those who challenge themselves see a new world.”
“Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”
“From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.”
“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness”
“Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.”
“The mind once stretched by a new idea never returns to its original dimensions.”
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
“You can become a much greater person than you are now.”
“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security and healing requires the same”
“If you start before you feel fully ready, stress drops and focus rises.”
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
— Ram Dass
“A person grows according to how they understand themselves.”
“One must learn to be patient and find that things will come to one in their own good time.”
“No mud no lotus”
“Learning is youth, and understanding is maintaining youth.”
— José Martí
“Iron sharpens iron; scholar sharpens scholar.”
“Growth comes when you endure discomfort.”
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
“Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait and wait without anxiety.”
— Gabby Bernstein
“I am not destroying myself, I am creating myself.”
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
— Joseph Campbell
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
— Oscar Wilde
“The best thing about family life is that it forces you to grow and love beyond yourself.”
— Dorothy Day
“All of us who do creative work get into it because we have good taste”
— Ira Glass
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
“Work to become, not to acquire.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“You dont start out writing good stuff you start out writing bad stuff”
— Octavia Butler
“If you want to improve be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
— Jack Canfield
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