"Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back."
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"Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous."
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"To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie men!"
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"If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything."
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"In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties."
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"My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession."
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"I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts."
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"It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic."
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"Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning."
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"Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we must identify with them rather than judge them."
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"The world may be as evangelized as it will ever get if we attempt to complete the remaining task with a motivation built around the fleeting feelings of compassion. Mercy can strike a match, but we need emissaries from many lands who are ablaze with the inexhaustible fuel of jealousy for God's glory."
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"It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible."
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"DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back."
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"Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do."
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"Don't wait until you feel like taking positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it."
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"My core philosophy on winning and motivation is summed up by saying that you were born to win, but in order to be the winner you were born to be, you have to plan to win and prepare to win before you can expect to win."
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"Motivation is like bathing. You've got to do it every single day."
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"If everyone has the same amount of time and yet some earn more than others, can we say then say that it's how we use our time that determines the money we make?"
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"When you give your ONE Thing your most emphatic Yes! and vigorously say No! to the rest, extraordinary results become possible."
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"There is magic in knocking down your most important domino day after day. All you have to do is avoid breaking the chain, one day at a time, until you generate a powerful new habit in your life."
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