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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Mother, Blessing, Love

"My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles."

Hedy Lamarr, Austrian Actress

Mother, Girls, Miracles, Ugly

"Necessity, the mother of invention."

George Farquhar, Irish Dramatist

Mother, Invention, Necessity

"My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one."

Groucho Marx, American Comedian

Mother, Children

"I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother."

Phil Donahue, American Entertainer

Mother, Celebrity, Company

"I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me."

Anne Heche, American Actress

Mother, Father, Therapy

"I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me."

Curtis Jackson, American Musician

Mother,

"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."

Frank Pittman, American Psychiatrist

Mother,

"When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too."

Mackenzie Astin, American Actor

Mother, Brother, Fun, Old

"My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee."

Phyllis Diller, American Comedian

Mother, Pain

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"Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day."

Day

"Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them."

Life

"If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered."

Idea

"Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach."

Work

"If you don't execute your ideas, they die."

Ideas

"Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process."

Success

"It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date."

Ideas

"Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be."

Ambiguity

"Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father."

Mother