"It seems obvious that there comes period in your life when you have to learn to say no to things you don't want to do. But the biggest trickiest lesson in holding on the stalwart committment to your creativity is learning how to say no to the things you do want to do."

-- Elizabeth Gilbert

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“Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.”
“Working safely is like breathing - if you don't, you die.”
“Success isn't what you've done compared to others. Success is what you've done compared to what you were made to do.”
“Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.”

Source : "Listen, learn ... then lead". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2011.
“The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a hopeless business, like trying to dip up the ocean with a tea-spoon.”

Source : Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Mark J. Madigan (1993). “Keeping Fires Night and Day: Selected Letters of Dorothy Canfield Fisher”, p.94, University of Missouri Press
“Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women, moving women into the workplace; our feelings about our role in the world. All of that comes in a very direct way out of World War II.”
“Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.”
“All the other candidates are making speeches about how much they have done for their country, which is ridiculous. I haven't done anything yet, and I think it's just common sense to send me to Washington and make me do my share.”

Source : "How to Become President". Book by Gracie Allen, 1940.

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