"Great people do things before they’re ready...." - Quote by Amy Poehler
Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it.
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“Sleep and I do not have a good relationship. We have never been good friends. I am constantly chasing sleep and then pushing it away. A good night's sleep is my white whale. Like Ahab, I am also a total drama queen about it. I love to talk about how little sleep I get. I brag about it, as if it is a true indication of how hard I work.”
“Sleep helps you win at life.”
“Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.”
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“A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.”
“If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.”
“If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.”
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“The fears you dont face control you. The fears you face, you move beyond.”
“Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.”
“If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.”