This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think: It can put you on the established path–the my-isn’t-that-impressive- path– and keep you there for a long time.
MICHELLE OBAMA
I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think: It can put you on the established path–the my-isn’t-that-impressive- path– and keep you there for a long time.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
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Even if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.
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I began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stick place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.
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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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Here’s a memory, which like most memories is imperfect and subjective—collected long ago like a beach pebble and slipped into the pocket of my mind.
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When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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