"Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on."

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Source : Anna Deavere Smith (2008). “Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind”, p.36, Anchor

Anna Deavere Smith

#Grateful Quotes #Discipline Quotes #Preparation Quotes

“...many organizations don't realize that they have a much better option-they can tell their story directly to an interested market.”

Source : David Meerman Scott (2009). “World Wide Rave: Creating Triggers that Get Millions of People to Spread Your Ideas and Share Your Stories”, p.13, John Wiley & Sons
“Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.”

Source : "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry" by Charles Peguy, translated by Ann and Julien Green, New York: Pantheon, (p. 153), 1943.
“i'm afraid to breathe in case i break the spell”
“If you have never missed when investing, you haven't been in there trying.”

Source : Venita VanCaspel (1988). “Money Dynamics for the 1990s”, Simon & Schuster
“They alone live, who live for others.”
“I think we've made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we've treated anything else. We've made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people. I think we have to do a better job than we've done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don't' rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but in those times, if you got someone pregnant, you had no choice but to get married. So I left school and the only thing I could do was sing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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