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