Rebecca Walker
Author
". . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore."
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Showing Up
59 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Brené Brown
Researcher, author, speaker
"Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen."
Marie Forleo
Entrepreneur, Author
"Showing up fully exactly where you are is the fastest way to get where you want to go!"
Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"Ninety percent of life is just showing up."
Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist
"Half the battle is just showing up."
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"I guess I was a little bit nervous, because there seemed to be so much secrecy with Ben [Stiller] wanting to make sure that it was a surprise when we walked out on the [Valentino] runway. I remember showing up at Place Vendôme and doing the fitting and seeing the pajamas that I was going to wear - which I like very much - and seeing Ben arrive kind of in disguise."
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"If 90% of success in life is showing up, the other 10% depends on what you're showing up for."
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"There’s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen."
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"Showing up is 80 percent of life."
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"I make 50 cents for showing up... and the other 50 cents is based on my performance."
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"There's what is on screen and then for us, it's if you get along with the people and enjoy showing up at work."
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"There is nothing more vulnerable than creativity. . . It's not about winning, it's not about losing, it's about showing up and being seen."
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"It's about showing up. And sometimes I don't do it. I almost always regret it, but sometimes I don't do it. Sometimes I walk into a situation where I'm intimidated and I want to be liked and I want to fit in, and I don't choose authenticity. And it's always pretty miserable."
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"I think a lot of us are looking for the same thing. I feel very lucky to have a definitive moment where I know everything shifted in me, and it was the moment I read that quote. Because I thought, A. That's everything I know about vulnerability. It's not winning, it's not losing, it's showing up and being seen. B. That's who I want to be."
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"I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write."
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"A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting."
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"Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties."
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"[The Democrats] have got to do a better job of showing up."
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"I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that's not the way it was. ... I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching."
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"90% of success in life is showing up"
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"Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. Eighty percent of success is showing up."
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"Instead of showing up to let everyone know how great we are, show up to find out how great everyone else is."
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"The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain."
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"I heard that in relativity theory, space and time are the same thing. Einstein discovered this when he kept showing up three miles late for his meetings."
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"I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you."
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