The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. — Ayn Rand

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First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win. — Mahatma Gandhi

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I don't want to give people the wrong advice to follow their dreams no matter what, because it's not fun to be a starving artist. But on the other hand, life is short, and if you are burning with a passion to do something, then do it. Work hard, study hard at it, and don't give up. _ Marjorie Liu

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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. — Elbert Hubbard

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And poems are all that matter. The utmost of ambition is to lodge a few poems where they will be hard to get rid of. ― Robert Frost

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Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form. ― Leonardo da Vinci

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Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen. – Conan O’Brien

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Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work. — Denis Waitley

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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. ― Plato, The Republic

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People with ambition don’t give a damn what other people think of them. ― Diane Setterfield

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