"But be careful about the parts you agree to play...You never know when one is going to stick."

-- Edward Bloor

#Play Quotes #Sticks Quotes #Be Careful Quotes

“First thing I do when I get up is journal, meditate, read.”
“It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?”
“There are so many opportunities to make a bad decision in building a robot company on top of all the normal ways that entrepreneurs screw up that it is incredibly difficult to truly create value because it is so cost-sensitive.”
“The biggest hindrance to the missionary task is self. Self that refuses to die. Self that refuses to sacrifice. Self that refuses to give. Self that refuses to go.”

Source : Thomas Hale (1995). “On Being a Missionary”, p.29, William Carey Library
“No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.”
“I just grew the hair on my back. Facial hair just wasn't appealing to me. I liked it on my back, though.”
“Often, people who can do, donâ€™t because theyâ€™re afraid of what people that canâ€™t do will say about them doing.”
“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.”

Source : Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail”, p.51, Vintage

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