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- Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.
- Anne Lamott
- She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.
- Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), The Song of the Lark
- If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
- John Cleese (1939 - )
- The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
- Vidal Sassoon
- There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell (1937 - )
- I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good…Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.
- Jay Leno (1950 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
- The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- Courage is saying, "Maybe what I'm doing isn't working; maybe I should try something else."
- Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
- Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.
- David P. Mikkelson, snopes.com, September 8, 2003
- One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
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