You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.

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You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

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The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost. ― Henry David Thoreau

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If you can dream it, you can make it so. — Belva Davis

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I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it's possible.

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Living is the art of getting used to what we didn’t expect. – Eleanor C. Wood

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Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself. ― C.S. Lewis

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I honestly didn't think miracles could ever come from my broken pieces, and I was disabled in fear that my dreams would always remain as dreams. Don't give up on you. Don't give up on God. Don't give up on love.

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The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.

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Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do - Ella Fitzgerald

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