It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.

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We have to learn to face our fears and push ourselves. If you're living on earth and you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room. When you push past the fear and realize that what you feared was not a big deal, you gain more confidence.

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That old saying about opportunity only knocking once is as archaic as the flat-earth theory and as patently untrue. Opportunity knocks all the time - and it rings your doorbell, calls you up, and sends you e-mails.

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Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one. -- Ronald McNair

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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got. -- R. Brault

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For naught so vile on the Earth doth live, but to the Earth some special good doth give.

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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.

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In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on. — Taylor Swift

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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. ― Seneca

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