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Frankisms
Short truths, collected over a lifetime of writing and teaching. Read a few, or lose an afternoon.
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“To change, you have to stop doing what you know how to do—and start doing something you don’t know how to do. — Ray Considine”
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“Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold. — Maurice Scitter”
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“Trouble starts when we think too big. — Jane Anne Staw”
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“Until you’ve been in the battle, don’t tell me what the war is all about. — Dennis Hensley”
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“Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. — Henry Van Dyke”
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“Watch for big problems. They disguise big opportunities. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do. — Dale Carnegie”
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“We can enrich ourselves, thereby enhancing our ability to continue to enrich others. We might as well get good at it. — Alan Weiss”
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“We don’t have time for everything. — Thomas Harris”
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“We don’t know who we are until we can see what we can do. — Martha Grimes”
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“We have to knock on a lot of wrong doors to find the right one. — Terry Burns”
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“We must not sit still and look for miracles. — John Eliot”
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“Well begun is half done. — Aristotle”
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“What costs little is valued less. — Miguel de Cervantes”
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“What we have to learn to do is lean into the things that hold us back, to move through the pain and push forward. — Jeff Goins”
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“What you did years ago doesn’t matter. What matters is what you do today. — Jeff Goins”
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“When good men die, their goodness does not perish. — Euripedes”
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“When it is dark enough, men see the stars. — Ralph Waldo Emerson”
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“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. — Alexander Graham Bell”
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“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. — Helen Keller”
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“When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“When the passion goes away, it’s the practice that sustains us. — Jeff Goins”
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“When there is a hill to climb, don’t think that waiting will make it smaller. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“When we constantly seek our own happiness, we’re rarely satisfied. — Jeff Goins”
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“When we grow old, there can only be one regret—not to have given enough of ourselves. — Eleonora Duse”
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“When we lose sight of our objectives, we work out the resulting anxiety by redoubling our efforts. We are not getting anywhere, but we are getting there twice as fast. — Thomas Harris”
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“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. — Franklin Delano Roosevelt”
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“When you reach that threshold of discomfort, you need to convert it to positive energy, positive thoughts, and positive overdrive. — Steven Ungerleider”
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“When your actions are based on obligation, it is very hard to determine what truly matters to you. — Robert Fritz”
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“Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems. — Nelson Rockefeller, 19081979”
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“Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach. — John W. Gardner”
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“Working really hard is what successful people do. — Malcolm Gladwell, author”
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“Worry is a malfunction of the mind. It is an excuse to do nothing rather than something. — Ray Considine”
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“Yesterday is a canceled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is ready cash—use it. — Kay Lyons”
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“You become excellent by practice. — Sandra Glahn, editor in chief of Kindred Spirit magazine”
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“You can’t find your life’s purpose if you aren’t willing to embrace discomfort and join others in their suffering. — Jeff Goins”
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“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. — Jack London”
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“You don’t always win your battles, but it’s good to know you fought. — Marjorie Holmes”
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“You have to be willing to take enormous risks to reap enormous rewards. — Judith Barrington”
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“You master mathematics if you are willing to try. Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds. — Malcolm Gladwell, author”
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