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    Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad
    “Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
    tags: humor
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    George Carlin
    “The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: butterflies, caterpillars, humor, injustice, work
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    Émile Zola
    “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
    ― Émile Zola
    tags: art, enterprise, talent, work
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    Salvador Dalí
    “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
    ― Salvador Dali
    tags: failure, fear, imperfection, mistakes, perfection, success
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    Coco Chanel
    “Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: failure, success, time
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    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    ― Markus Herz
    tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints
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    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    ― Coco Chanel
    tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought
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  • #8
    Coco Chanel
    “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
    ― Coco Chanel
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    Coco Chanel
    “Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
    ― Coco Chanel
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  • #10
    Stephen King
    “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: inspirational, productivity, writing
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    Doug Radkey
    “Values beat experience when experience doesn't work hard.”
    ― Doug Radkey, Bar Hacks: Developing The Fundamentals for an Epic Bar
    tags: bars, hiring, hospitality-quotes, inspirational, restaurants, work-ethic
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  • #12
    William James
    “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”
    ― William James
    tags: action, happiness, motivational, work
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  • #13
    Victor Hugo
    “A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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  • #14
    John Wooden
    “Don't mistake activity with achievement.”
    ― John Wooden
    tags: achievement, acquirement, act, action, activity, attainment, completion, conclusion, deed, doing, energy, enterprise, exertion, feat, fulfullment, labor, occurence, perfection, performance, production, service, success, undertaking, venture, work
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    Mary Oliver
    “Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
    ― Mary Oliver
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    Mary Oliver
    “Love yourself. Then forget it.
    Then, love the world.”
    ― Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems
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    Mary Oliver
    “I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.”
    ― Mary Oliver
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  • #18
    Desmond Tutu
    “Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

    [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]”
    ― Desmond Tutu
    tags: argument, debate, discussion, persuasion, shouting
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  • #19
    “You only lose what you cling to.”
    ― Guatama Buddha
    tags: attachment, buddhism
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  • #20
    Tara Brach
    “Staying occupied is a socially sanctioned way of remaining distant from our pain.”
    ― Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame
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    Tara Brach
    “Perfection is not a prerequisite for anything but pain.”
    ― Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
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  • #22
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: success
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  • #23
    Louise Erdrich
    “What I’m trying to say is that a certain sentence of the book—a written sentence, a very powerful sentence—killed Flora.’ Louise was silent. After a few moments she spoke. ‘I wish I could write a sentence like that.”
    ― Louise Erdrich, The Sentence
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