We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?”
A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.
What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist.
…The sharp terror of a loss of confidence in ourselves…you think, How did I get here and how am I going to continue this and when are they going to discover I am, in fact, a fraud and take everything away from me? It’s a high wire act that we all walk…If I can’t do it then that means I am going to have to fake it…
As long as you as an individual… can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as ‘one of the faithful,’ one of those people who can say, ‘Well, look, something’s going to happen! Let’s just keep trying. Let’s not give up.
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