This is not a dress rehearsal

I’m 44. This is not a dress rehearsal in my life or career, this is the real thing. Some times we look at life like it’s a dress rehearsal. “OK, I’m gonna be able to fuck around and do this and that and then I’ll have a chance” and it’s like, this never comes back. NEVER.

I feel bad for guys who come up to me and go, “I’m 40, and I never did stand-up, or I never tried radio, and I always wanted to”, because maybe circumstances didn’t allow it, but a lot of time people look at things like it’s a rehearsal. IT’S NOT. It’s hard to motivate until you think of it this way.

“If I don’t DO, or at least TRY what I wanna fucking try, and MOVE, I’m just gonna fucking get stuck here.”

In any thing you’re doing in life, if you wanna go out and try something, just SHUT UP, and go out and fucking try it, and if you fail, you’re never gonna look back and go, “I should have given that a shot”

Jim Norton

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Take the opportunity

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Be prepared

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

Milton Berle

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Confidence!

Self-confidence is the only exit, from your present season.

Mike Murdock

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Take chances!

Of all sad words of mouth or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been.

John Greenleaf Whittier

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Life moves in mysterious ways

Just when you think you know exactly how it’s going, some other possibility shows up and it gets even better.

Nils Ekstrom

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Endless possibilities!

Wether one is 20, 40 or 60; wether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; wether yesterday was full of sun or storm, or one of those dull days with no weather at all, life begins each morning! Each morning is the open door to a new world – new vistas, new aims, new tryings.

Leigh Mitchell Hodges

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Believe in yourself

It is all about the reality-distortion field!

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Bruce Barton

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Live to the fullest!

See, the problem with doing things to prolong your life is that all the extra years come at the end, when you’re old.

Live your live to the fullest! Enjoy the perks of life now and do not constantly worry about the future. Living long is not worth anything as long as you merely exist. Living is only worth anything as long as you truly live.

Don’t waste your time preparing for growing old securely. Live!

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It is never too late

Wether one is 20, 40 or 60; wether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; wether yesterday was full of sun or storm, or one of those dull days with no weather at all, life begins each morning! Each morning is the open door to a new worl – new vistas, new aims, new tryings.

Leigh Mitchell Hodges

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