"When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them."

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Source : Amanda Palmer (2014). “The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help”, p.98, Hachette UK

Amanda Palmer

#Tasks Quotes #Judgment Quotes #Impress Quotes

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.”
“I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.”
“Lack of Confidence, low Self-Esteem, and depleted Mojo are symptoms of inadequate Strength Training.”
“The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.”
“It's not easy to have the job of president. It's not easy to run for it. And it's not a job for the feint of heart.”
“Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.”

Source : David Rains Wallace (1978). “The Dark Range: A Naturalist's Night Notebook”, Random House (NY)
“After you leap, before you land, is God.”
“A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.”

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