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Listen to Mustn'ts, child
listen to the Don'ts
Listen to the Shouldn'ts
the Impossibles, the Won'ts
Listen to the Never Haves
then listen close to me
Anything can happen, child
Anything can be

—Shel Silverstein

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Alice laughed. “There's no use trying,” she said. “One can't believe impossible things.”

”I daresay you haven't had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!”

—Through the Looking Glass

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Courage isn’t having the strength to go on. It is going on when you don’t have the strength.

―Napoleon Bonaparte

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When nothing seems to help, I remember the stonecutter, hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it, yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

―Jacob Riis

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When someone tells me no, it doesn’t mean I can’t do it. It simply means I can’t do it with them.

—Karen E. Quinones Miller

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You can’t do it unless you believe that you can do it.

—Fred Hampton

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If you build it,
they will come.

—Field of Dreams

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You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.

―Dr. Seuss

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Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.

―Bob Ross

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Keep goin’
(keep goin’)
Keep goin’
(keep goin’)
Keep goin’
(keep goin’)
Keep goin’
(keep goin’)

―Justin Bieber

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Give ‘em what for, Davy.

―George Russel

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The greater the obstacle, the greater the glory in overcoming it.

—Molière

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Luck never made a man wise.

—Seneca

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They say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

—Winnie-the-Pooh

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Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who come alive.

—Howard Thurman

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One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next, a star.

—Rainer Maria Rilke, Sunset

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Parable of the boy throwing starfish back into the sea

Poem: Lost

Poem: It Couldn’t Be Done

Poem: Listen to the Mustn’ts

Poem: Coming Up for Air

Poem: Another Postponement of Destruction

Pete Carroll & the power of positive coaching

Poem: Claim

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