"To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.”
- Peter McWilliams
"Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work."
- Chuck Close
“I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.”
-Michael Caine
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
-Pablo Picasso
"The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other."
-Mario Puzo
“Construct your Determination with Sustained Effort, Controlled Attention, and Concentrated Energy. opportunities never come to those who wait... they are captured by those who dare to attack.”
-Paul J. Meyer
"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action."
-Unknown
"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
-William Jennings Bryan
"More is lost through inaction, than wrong action."
-Carmela Sporano (ok, that's a character on tv, but does it make it any less true?)
"You never fail until, you stop trying"
-Albert Einstein
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