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What counsel would you give your twenty-year-old self — and what should they ignore?
Abby Wambach

United States international footballer, 2001–2015

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
I stayed on the path out of fear, not of being eaten by a wolf, but of being cut, being benched, losing my paycheck. If I could go back and tell my younger self one thing it would be this: "Abby, you were never Little Red Riding Hood; you were always the wolf."

Barnard College commencement address, Radio City Music Hall, New York, Speakola, 16 May 2018 source ↗

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Paul Farmer Physician and medical anthropologist; co-founder of Partners In Health
I think a lot of people, when they’re really young, and in their 20s, they are on their own quest for personal efficacy. And I understand that. ... But the sooner that people can discover that it’s really about building teams, and not about personal efficacy, I think the better — the more quickly — we can move forward. I believe that.
Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 3 July 2009 source ↗
Megan Rapinoe United States international footballer, 2006–2023
Even more simply, you can ask yourself this question: "Do I truly care about equality for all people in this country?" If the answer is yes, then demand to be a better, more educated, more empathetic version of yourself. And demand the same of every single person you know.
Recorded First-person essay, The Players' Tribune, 6 October 2016 source ↗
Carlos Slim Helú Businessman and investor; chairman of Grupo Carso and América Móvil
The first thing to recommend is that they don’t work in some place that they don’t like, that they don’t do things that they don’t like. That they look for what they really want to do and what kind of thing they want to be involved in, or if they want to go it alone by themselves, to find that.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 2 December 2007 source ↗
Derek Sivers Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
Yeah, anybody asks me about it, my advice was always, do not do it. In fact, it still is. Somebody just asked me last week, I was like, do not do it.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 23 April 2023 source ↗

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