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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman
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"If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person."

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Serena Williams Tennis Player
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"I don't want to be like some of those celebrities walking around, just so full of themselves. I always want to be down-to-earth, want to be a person like when you meet them, they're the same person that you think of them in the article or something."

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Serena Williams Tennis Player
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"I've been writing, but I haven't been writing. In my mind I've been saying I want to write, but I haven't actually physically picked up a pencil and started writing."

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Serena Williams Tennis Player
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"I want it to be more natural. Right now it feels really forced. Seems like I've never done a curtsy before, which may be true. But I'm looking forward to nailing it."

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Seth Musician
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"We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth."

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Seth Musician
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"The real problem when working with a consultant, a therapist or a coach isn’t that we don’t know what to do. The real problem is that we don’t want to change our mind."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
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"What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
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"I have something to say. I know how to do something. I’m doing it. If you want me to do it with you, raise your hand."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
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"Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone."

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