"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

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Source : Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.56, Infobase Publishing

Georgia O'Keeffe

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Courage Quotes

“I feel like it is easy to get people to see eye-to-eye with you on little things, but if I were to talk about my faith as a whole, people tend to turn off to that. They feel like you are trying to persuade people to think like you do, and that's not really what I'm trying to do.”
“I think the only fear that I have in getting married is what if I'm not enough or what if I'm not prepared enough, because I'm the kind of person that likes to be prepared.”
“Life is all about being true to yourself and what you believe in”
“Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.”

Source : "Senator Jim Jeffords Leaves GOP, Handing Senate to Democrats". "NBC Nightly News" with Tom Brokaw and Lisa Myers, archives.nbclearn.com. May 24, 2001.
“You know, they say that there is a part of the human chest that it you strike it hard enough, it makes the personâ€™s heart explode. This sounds like such a lie that I have to believe itâ€™s the truth. If I were science, Iâ€™d never tell anyone where this place is. If I were science, Iâ€™d have named this place after you.”

Source : Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz (2013). “Everything Is Everything”, p.68, SCB Distributors
“As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!”
“Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning.”
“Don't sit back and be a bystander of your own life”

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