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Something New

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Dale Carnegie
Dale Carnegie Author, Speaker

"Fear is the result of a lack of confidence. A lack of confidence is the result of not knowing what you can do. A lack of knowing what you can do is caused by a lack of experience. A lack of experience is caused by a lack of doing something new."

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David Lee Roth Musician
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"The best time is during the struggle. The top of the mountain is usually small, freezing and lonesome. To this day I'm continually reinvesting myself in something new. I'm not afraid to start as a beginner in anything."

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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
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"Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing."

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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
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"I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new."

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Isaac Newton Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
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"The Prophecies of Daniel are all of them related to one another, as if they were but several parts of one general Prophecy, given at several times. The first is the easiest to be understood, and every following Prophecy adds something new to the former."

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
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"I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write."

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Will Smith Actor, Producer, Rapper
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"Whatever you have is gonna die and you are gonna have to rebirth something new. You have to be willing to ride the waves."

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