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“Follow your nature. The practice is really about uncovering your own pose; we have great respect for our teachers, but unless we can uncover our own pose in the moment, it's not practice - it's mimicry. Rest deeply in Savasana every day. Always enter that pratyahara (withdrawn state) every day. And just enjoy yourself. For many years I mistook discipline as ambition. Now I believe it to be more about consistency. Do get on the mat. Practice and life are not that different.”

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Author:Judith Hanson Lasater

“Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'”

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Author:Marilyn Monroe

“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”

Source: Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder

“One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.”

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Book:Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk

Source: Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

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Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”

“I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.”

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Book:UnSouled

Source: UnSouled

“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: 'You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you will threaten the man.' Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices, always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now, marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support, but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don't teach boys the same?”

“Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.”

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Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.”

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Author:Zig Ziglar

“I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.”

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Author:Jean-Francois Cope