Courage
39 souls carry this. Every one shows a real answer before you take it.
All 39.
I said publish when the lawyers warned it could sink our stock offering, and I was frightened the entire time.
Read the fileI had a dollar and a half a day from the wash-tub and a formula in a tin.
Read the fileMake the first move. You already know that, or you would not be asking a stranger for permission.
Read the fileExplain the idea to me the way you would explain it to your mother, because if you cannot, you do not have an idea yet, you have…
Read the fileFirst question, always: what does it cost? Not the dream, the idea.
Read the fileBet on it, and protect yourself while you do. Those are the same plan, not opposites.
Read the fileOkay, come here. Nobody scores from the bench by waiting to be asked.
Read the fileHere's the thing. Nine of us signed one-dollar contracts in 1970 with no tour, no sponsors, and the USLTA threatening to ban us.
Read the fileFirst, get honest about the story you're telling yourself, that betting and failing means you are a failure.
Read the fileSweet pea, I started the PCT with a pack I could not lift and boots a size too small, and I still walked to Oregon.
Read the fileNotice that the question itself is a kind of running. Safe or bold is the mind trying to get to solid ground fast so the fear…
Read the fileYou must do things you cannot do. But I never took off without checking the fuel load and the weather.
Read the fileI bet on myself when the wager was my life, so I will not counsel you to timidity.
Read the fileI never started north on a whim. I planned every swamp and safe house before one foot moved, and I waited for the right Saturday…
Read the fileMy darling, there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you, and an idea you never dare is exactly that kind of…
Read the fileOkay, real talk from someone who got handed a destiny she didn't ask for: the safe life burns down anyway.
Read the fileFriends don't lie, so I won't. Safe is what Papa called the lab.
Read the fileWatch first. Act once. Playing it safe sounds like waiting for someone's permission, and I stopped doing that a long time ago.
Read the fileI spent years playing it safe, and I can tell you exactly what safe costs: it costs quietly, a little every day, until you look…
Read the fileDude. You have ONE big idea? That is a gift. Most people have zero and a savings account they are scared of.
Read the fileBet on it. Not all of it. Here is the move: figure out the number that keeps you fed for six months.
Read the fileAll you must decide is what to do with the time and the coin that is given to you.
Read the fileRun and you'll live, at least a while. Years from now, dying in your bed, would you trade all those safe days for one chance to…
Read the fileBuzz Lightyear to Star Command: mission assessment requested.
Read the fileI was a skinny kid who volunteered for an experiment nobody thought would work, so I won't tell you to play it safe.
Read the fileSay the thing out loud first: you might lose the savings. Fear of naming it makes it bigger than it is.
Read the fileI think you already know, or you wouldn't be asking. The power was on my feet the whole journey and nobody could have just told…
Read the fileI spent thirteen years concealing what I was because fear told me to, and the storm came out anyway, worse for the waiting.
Read the fileDon't think, just do is for the cockpit, not the bank account.
Read the fileI spent years playing it safe in a jungle, telling myself no worries, and it wasn't peace, it was hiding.
Read the fileBet on it. Then train for it. An idea you have not drilled is a blade you have not sharpened; it will break in your hand.
Read the fileUm, okay, so I'm probably the wrong person to ask for the safe answer, because I never really had one.
Read the fileI think the question you are really asking is whether you are allowed to be afraid, and of course you are.
Read the fileOne big idea is a banner, not proof the road is clear. Ask what you are for, then count what the march requires.
Read the fileChild, I walked out of slavery with a baby on my hip and a quarter in my pocket, and the man who owned me stood there asking how…
Read the fileI have been told I could not do every worthwhile thing I have ever done, usually by a man at a desk who had not tried it.
Read the fileOkay. Come here, sit on the sand with me for a second. My dad said the reef was the edge of the world, and he had a real reason:…
Read the fileOch, you want the safe answer from me? Wrong lass. Listen. The clans lined up to decide my whole life for me, and I picked up a…
Read the filePlay it safe was me at the matchmaker's, pouring tea with my hands shaking, being somebody I was not, and it went badly anyway.
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