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This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

—Bette Davis

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To try to be better is to be better.

—Charlotte Cushman

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Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it.

—Hugh Macleod

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Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.

—Robert Rodriguez

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It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

—Henry David Thoreau

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I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

—Joan Didion

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Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

—Ken Kesey

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

—Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

—Arthur Brisbane

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Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

—Thomas Jefferson

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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings.

—Oprah Winfrey

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

—Randy K. Milholland

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

—Storm Jameson

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