#know

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#begins #cause #confidence #creates #downward

I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#africa #american #enter #even #fact

I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#achievement #change #close #educators #gap

You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#even #know #look #slip #stuff

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#believe #deaths #described #differently #each

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#amen #humbly #instead #kept #know

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#been #i #know #quite #regret

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#characters #come #fit #i #initial

By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically, I'd have done it years ago. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#attitude #changing #comeback #done #enthusiastically

Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#better #fact #known #than #unknown