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