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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
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Personal Development
"We are capable of greatness."
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Personal Development
"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."
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Personal Development
"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."
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Personal Development
"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."
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Personal Development
"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."
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Personal Development
"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."
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Personal Development
"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"
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Personal Development
"We are all capable of being great dreamers."
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Personal Development
"The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability."
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Personal Development
Explore more quotes by Suzanne Farrell
"Of course, in the art class, I was the model."
Art
"And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession."
Thought
"When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across."
Life
"On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life."
Life
"I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do."
Politics
"I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not."
Thought
"I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels."
Love
"That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing."
Work
"I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be."
Thought
"When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world."
Reality
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