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“Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK.”
― Katie Couric

“A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“Misperceiving that there is one correct choice is a common mistake. Coming to understand that there are usually a few good choices--and then there's the one you pick, commit to, and make great--is the best way to make flexible, optimal, good decisions in life.”
― Katie Couric

“You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.”
― Katie Couric

“... not far around the corner from every ugly experience is something really beautiful. And if you stop at every bitter comment you will never reach that beauty.

Soledad O'Brien”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“The only way it can work is for you to throw yourself on the mercy of the audience and hope they like you for what you really, truly, honestly are. The camera is the world’s most sophisticated lie detector.”
― Katie Couric, Going There

“I never learned anything when I was talking.”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“self-confidence is the most important characteristic of successful people.”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“So just ask the question. After all, what’s the worst that could happen? “No” isn’t really so bad, and “Yes” might take you places you’d never expect.”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, ‘We put our love where we have put our labor.”
― Katie Couric, Going There

“Ninety-year-old Irving Fradkin, an optometrist from Fall River, Massachusetts, who started a grass-roots scholarship fund, flanked by a dozen grateful kids among the hundreds of thousands he’d sent to college.”
― Katie Couric, Going There

“more than half of med school students are women.”
― Katie Couric, Going There

“Dave Barry once satirized Thurmond in his syndicated column, saying he colored his hair with Tang).”
― Katie Couric, Going There

“A boat is always safe in the harbor,” she wrote. “But that’s not what boats are built for.”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“For 42 years, I’ve been making small, regular deposits in this bank of experience, education, and training. And on January 15th, the balance was sufficient so that I could make a very large withdrawal.”
― Katie Couric, Going There

“When you are doing something important, make sure you have a smile on your face and a shine on your shoes.”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“One of my favorite producers, Molly McGinnis, reminded me of the time I called her into my office after hours to tell her I wasn’t happy with the direction the shows were taking, saying they lacked substance.”
― Katie Couric, Going There

“Endless gratitude to my posse of pals who fielded countless calls and texts, and took so many walks down memory lane with me, with plenty of liquor nearby: Bob Peterson, Matt Lombardi, Lori Beecher, Lauren Osborn, Nicolla Hewitt, Brian Goldsmith, and Tony Maciulis. (If these walls could talk—oh wait, they just did.”
― Katie Couric, Going There

“Maeve Binchy”
― Katie Couric, Going There

“Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades, bumps, and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested. Have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect, nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK.”
― Katie Couric

“Be secure enough in yourself to base success on personal growth.”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“I think my zygomaticus major might be major. I smile big and I smile a lot—even my resting bitch face is a smile.”
― Katie Couric, Going There

“Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.” And she taught me that there is always a way around a problem—you’ve just got to find it. Keep trying doors; one will eventually open. She also taught me to accept failure as part and parcel of life. It’s not the opposite of success; it’s an integral part of success.”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“She also taught me to accept failure as part and parcel of life. It’s not the opposite of success; it’s an integral part of success. I”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“All those people you pass as you climb the ladder of success could be the same ones who will catch you if you fall.”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“I love the smell of estrogen in the morning”
― Katie Couric

“Too often we still live with the pinched expectations of a culture of conformity, which sees daring as dangerous. Go along to get along: that’s its mantra. Only a principled refusal to be terrorized by these stingy standards will save you from a Frankenstein life made up of other people’s expectations grafted together into a poor imitation of existence. You can’t afford to do that. It is what has poisoned our culture, our community, and our national character. No one does the right thing from fear, and so many of the wrong things are done in its long shadow. Homophobia, racism, religious bigotry: they are all bricks in a wall that divides us, bricks cast of the clay of fear, fear of that which is different or unknown.”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“Next, write down five things that you’re really good at. Then just try to match them up!”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested. —E. M. FORSTER”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

“Write down five things you love to do. Next, write down five things that you’re really good at. Then just try to match them up!”
― Katie Couric, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives