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“For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.”

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Book:Mary Kay

Source: Mary Kay

“It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that sorrow is an error and an evil, and we ought to overcome it. There is no need to sorrow for them, for they have passed into a far wider and happier life. If we sorrow for our own fancied separation from them, we are in the first place weeping over an illusion, for in truth they are not separated from us; and secondly, we are acting selfishly, because we are thinking more of our own apparent loss than of their great and real gain.”

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Author:Charles Webster Leadbeater

“If you engage in positive thinking to overcome negative thoughts, the negative thoughts are still there acting. That's still incoherence. It's not enough just to engage in positive thoughts when you have negative thoughts registered, because they keep on working and will cause trouble somewhere else.”

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Book:Thought as a System

Source: Thought as a System

“Having emotional connections to things that don't really exist, like looking at a green ball and really loving that green ball, and being sad whether it's around or not. Stuff like that. I've never done acting at this level before so it was a huge challenge for me. It was a hurdle to overcome just to survive.”

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Author:Shia LaBeouf

“You have to overcome enormous self-consciousness, but nudity is about the strongest thing you can do in an acting performance. It's the most unsettling or the most comic or the most sexual.”

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Author:John Lithgow

“I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn't be an actress, but I'm proving them wrong. Acting has helped me overcome the challenge.”

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Author:Bella Thorne

“You can't play an emotional condition; you have an emotional condition, and because you have that condition, you try to overcome it with active doings (intentions).”

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Book:The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor

Source: The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor

“I've definitely had some tough schoots. I'd say everything that I've done has had some sort of challenge that I've had to overcome. But it's the most satisfying feeling once you have and that's what I love about acting, sort of signing on to it knowing that it's going to be challenging.”

Done Feelings Challenges Acting Tough Overcoming

Author:Hailee Steinfeld

“Since I first started acting, I never separated a character's sexuality from what they eat for breakfast. I just think it's sort of silly. If I can be a part of helping to overcome that puritanical thing in our culture, so be it. I'm happy about it.”

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Author:Maria Bello

“None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and acting courageously to bring issues of class- especially radical standpoints – into the discourse of blackness is a gesture of militant defiance, one that runs counter to bourgeois insistence that we think of “money” in particular and class in general as private matters.”

Source: Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

“The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.”

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Author:Laozi