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Feel the fear and do it anyway.


Susan Jeffers

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GARY F EVANS... Just do it... that's all... no matter what, when and where... but just do it.
DEYTH BANGER Don't think it. Do it!
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JOYCE MEYER I think sometimes there is no right thing.
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EPHDAN So, whatever you want to do, just do it....Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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JOHN BURROUGHS It ain't bragging if you can do it.
DIZZY DEAN My father didn't tell me how to live;
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NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve
W. CLEMENT STONE It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it.
AGATHA CHRISTIE Don thanked God, me and his wife, Susan,
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You'll never do it!
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SUSAN SONTAG We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.
SUSAN CAIN The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking o...
SUSAN SONTAG Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
SUSAN ERTZ Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wr...
SUSAN RICE Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly...
SUSAN MINOT If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sur...
SUSAN RICE Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I ...
SUSAN ORLEAN I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kind...
SUSAN SONTAG Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide som...
SUSAN LIEBERMAN I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because...
SUSAN WIGGS Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some oth...
SUSAN ESTRICH You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special th...
SUSAN EGAN Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of cou...
SUSAN GEORGE Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
SUSAN SONTAG The American fantasy of love is the 'meet-cute,' 'Love at first sight,' and 'You...
SUSAN STRAIGHT The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjec...
SUSAN SONTAG I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human bei...
SUSAN HOWATCH Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuali...
SUSAN ESTRICH Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, ...
SUSAN WOJCICKI