You have to change from doubter to believer.
Introductory press conference as Liverpool manager, Anfield, October 2015, Sky Sports, 17 May 2024 source ↗
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Rahul Dravid
India Test and one-day international cricketer, 1996–2012; later India head coach
I know it is utterly fanciful to expect professional cricketers to play the game like amateurs; but the trick, I believe, is taking the spirit of the amateur - of discovery, of learning, of pure joy, of playing by the rules - into our profession. Taking it to practice or play, even when there's an epidemic of white-line fever breaking out all over the field.
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Bradman Oration, Anzac Hall, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ESPNcricinfo, 14 December 2011
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Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady of the United States 1933–1945; United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly 1945–1952; Chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights 1946–1951
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
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You Learn by Living (1960), Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project, The George Washington University, 1960
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Andrew Young
Civil rights leader, US Ambassador to the United Nations, Mayor of Atlanta
Everything I did, and I think everything Martin Luther King did, was because we allowed our lives to be in tune with what we felt to be a divine purpose. And it didn’t matter whether we lived or died. It didn’t matter how much money we made, or what we accomplished.
Alain de Botton
Writer and philosopher; founder of The School of Life
Be ambitious beyond merely dreaming of the first book being published. Already now try to imagine where you want this to go, where you want to be at 60.
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