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“If you choose not to act, you have little chance of success. What’s more, when you choose to act, you’re able to succeed more frequently than you think.”
― The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know
― The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know
“We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can.”
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“established views have frequently emerged not through a process of faultless reasoning, but through centuries of intellectual muddle. There may be no good reason for things to be the way they are.”
― The Consolations of Philosophy
― The Consolations of Philosophy
“Dare the difference. That we like. “You have to be savvy about it,” Lagarde allows, “but you also, in a sense, have to be confident about the difference.”
― The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know
― The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know
“Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.”
― On Being Ill
― On Being Ill
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