There are no radical creative choices that do not carry with them an inherent risk of equally radical failure. You cannot do anything great without aggressively courting your own limits and the limits of your ideas. […] There is nothing more powerful than failure to reveal to you what you are truly capable of. Avoiding risk of failure means avoiding transcendent creative leaps forward. You can’t have one without the other.
~ Aisha Tyler
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To handle yourself, use your head; To handle others, use your heart.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.
~ Epicurus
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
~ John Gunther
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
~ Henry Ford
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We have far more control in our lives than many embrace. We create or co-create our experiences in life, and each day is a new opportunity to be fully engaged in the present moment. It’s the present moment where glimpses of our potential are revealed and expressed. A living masterpiece is not drawn on a canvas or etched in stone or inked by pen. It’s the pursuit and expresssion of applied insight and wisdom.
~ Michael Gervais
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To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
~ Søren Kierkegaard
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To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
~ James P. Carse
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So the longer-term challenge is simply designing your life so that you have more of this stuff and less of the fluff. Look at every activity as you go through your day and think, “Is this contributing to getting me a better day—today—and if not, is there anybody in the world who has managed to design this activity out of their lives and still succeed beyond my level?
~ Pete Adeney
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