"Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter."

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Source : "Other Side of the Camera: Jill Eikenberry & Michael Tucker". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. June 5, 2007.

Greg McKeown

#Giving Quotes #Trying Quotes #Saying Yes Quotes

“Make your haters mad! Yeah, make them really mad!”
“I remember one morning getting up at dawn. There was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling. And I... I remember thinking to myself: So this is the beginning of happiness, this is where it starts. And of course there will always be more...never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment, right then.”

Source : "The Hours". www.imdb.com. 2002.
“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”

Source : Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books
“I've always had trouble with authority.”
“I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister.”
“... there are four women in every manâ€™s heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall and Quiet Woman.”

Source : Annie Proulx (2008). “The Shipping News: A Novel”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
“His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!”
“In regards to being female, I don't really think about it in the same way that other people do. I prefer to focus on my job rather than my gender. I'm still amazed that people think it's a big deal.”

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