Bob Goff Quotes
I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.
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I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
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In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
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Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
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To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
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I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
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I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.
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I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.
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Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.
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The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.
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Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen.
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Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.
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Part of being in a band, being a painter, or starting a nonprofit is that you're going to make horrible mistakes and look like a total idiot, but you're never going to create that thing that really connects with people if you don't fail over and over and over again.
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I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
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We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.
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I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.
