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“If you never want to be criticized, for goodness' sake don't do anything new.”
— Jeff Bezos
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.”
— Jack Lemmon
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it's the illusion of knowledge.”
— Stephen Hawking
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
— Aristotle
“And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.”
— Chris Cornell
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
— Mark Twain
“A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.”
— Confucius
“Average acting is like jerking without an orgasm”
— Giovanni Morasutti
“Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
— George Addair
“What would you do if you weren't afraid?”
— Spencer Johnson
“Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.”
— Sydney Smith
“Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. ”
— Zig Ziglar
“Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.”
— Aristotle
“I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.”
— Mitch Hedberg
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
— Thomas Edison
“A clever person turns great troubles into little ones, and little ones into none at all. ”
— Chinese Proverb
“Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.”
— Stephen Covey
“It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.”
— Marilyn Monroe
“The only way to truly handle our challenges is by facing them head on - and that requires a powerful, pure-burning motivation to take action despite these setbacks.”
— Zig Ziglar
“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
— Rumi
“You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”
— Albert Szent-Györgyi
“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.”
— Edward Phelps

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