The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
~ unknown
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Quotes
A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.
A responsibility to light
Feel all the things. Feel the hard things. The inexplicable things, the things that make you disavow humanity’s capacity for redemption. Feel all the maddening paradoxes. Feel overwhelmed, crazy. Feel uncertain. Feel angry. Feel afraid. Feel powerless. Feel frozen. And then FOCUS.
~ Wendy MacNaughton, and Courtney Martin
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Don’t underestimate yourself
The size of your problems is nothing compared with your ability to solve them. Don’t overestimate your problems, and underestimate yourself.
~ unknown
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The myth of the bloodless calling
I don’t care how much you say you love your work. If your vision is bold enough, there will soon be a point where your passion is used up before the work ends. Enjoyment does not carry you far enough when you are sailing epic waters.
~ Bryan Ward
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5,000 Steps to Success
If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don’t think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; if you just think of, detail by detail, what you have to do next, it is a wonderful dream even if the end is a long way off, for there are about five thousand steps to be taken before we realize it; and start making the first ten, and stay making twenty after, it is amazing how quickly you get through those five thousand steps.
~ Edwin Land
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Insane courage
You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.
~ “Benjamin Mee“
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Stop hoarding your best
Creative hoarding is different than other kinds of hoarding. You’re not withholding your treasure from others, you’re withholding it from yourself. You are denying yourself permission to take the best of what you have, here and now, and make it manifest in the world.
~ Bryan Ward
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How the hammer fails you
Wherever your life has locked you in, wherever force has failed you, put down the hammer: pick up the crowbar.
~ Bryan Ward
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Destiny is unavoidable
Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
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1 “realistic” belief
This growing discontent is a warning: a message to stop dissipating your powers in low-level problem solving, to lift your aim and seek better, higher-order problems: ones more lucrative, more alluring… ones better suited to your highest gifts.
~ Bryan Ward
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How art can change your life
No, I don’t think you’re born with it. You have to hear stories and you have to live stories. You have to have a bunch of experiences and be able to say ‘Here’s something that happened to me yesterday….’ And if you can make people laugh by telling them what happened to you, then you are telling the story well. So that’s what I learned in improv.
~ Bill Murray
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Now or never
Sometimes there is no next time, no second chance, no time out. Sometimes it is now or never.
~ unknown
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View from the top
When everything feels like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top.
~ unknown
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Curious children
Never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
~ Albert Einstein
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Thoughts manifest
The thought manifests the word;
~ Juan Mascaro
The word manifests the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character;
So watch the thought and its ways with care.
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Constant craving
The pain I endure became the pleasure I constantly crave.
~ unknown
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Lift someone else
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
~ Booker T. Washington
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Work hard
Remember: Rome wasn’t built in a day.
~ unknown
Work hard, good results will come.
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Balancing both natures
I early learned that there were two natures in me. This caused me a great deal of trouble, till I worked out a philosophy of life and struck a compromise between the flesh and the spirit. Too great an ascendancy of either was to be abnormal, and since normality is almost a fetish of mine, I finally succeeded in balancing both natures. Ordinarily they are at equilibrium; yet as frequently as one is permitted to run rampant, so is the other. I have small regard for an utter brute or for an utter saint.
~ Jack London
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You have to
If no one thinks you can,
~ unknown
then you have to.
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