"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous."

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Source : "Running on Empty: Meditations for Indispensable Women" by Ellen Sue Stern, (p. 235), 1992.

Margot Fonteyn

#Dance Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes

“My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.”
“There's no reward in life without risk.”
“Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.”
“I didn't have a cup of coffee until I was 27.”
“God dances with the outcast.”

Source : Steven James (2005). “How to Smell Like God: True Stories Burning with the Scent of Heaven”, p.20, Standard Publishing
“I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a diary.”

Source : Rob Thomas (2013). “Rats Saw God”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
“Imagine yourself as a living house.”
“That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer.”

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