Fun is one of the most important - and underrated - ingredients in any successful venture. If you're not having fun, then it's probably time to call it quits and try something else. -Richard Branson

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Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.— Dalai Lama

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Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.

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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

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Whoever is happy will make others happy too. — Anne Frank

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One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen. — Nelson Mandela

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She couldn't help thinking that something was wrong with a person had more shoes than books in their home. ― Victoria Connelly, Wish You Were Here

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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. - Simone de Beauvoir

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One must be something to do something. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I'm always uncomfortable describing being sacked from 'Blue Peter' as beneficial because it looks like you're glorying in it, which I don't. It's always something I'll regret. - Richard Bacon

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