"Be curious, not judgmental."

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Source : Walt Whitman, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Walt Whitman Quotes... Vol. 20: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Walt Whitman”

Walt Whitman

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“Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.”
“We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light.”
“For some heroes, nothing is impossible”

Source : Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“To go on being an actor, you need sheer animal energy. If you can't restock your energy, you have to hide your lack of it.”
“When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top, competing against the other top athletes, and sometimes things don't work.”
“What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?”
“If I dismiss the ordinaryâ€”waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happenâ€”I may just miss my life.”
“This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.”

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