Don't think. Get out of your head. Stop planning and just go.
Interpretation
The quote encourages taking action instead of overthinking or planning too much.
Amy Poehler's quote stresses the importance of moving beyond overthinking and mental hesitation. It highlights that action is often more valuable than endless planning, suggesting that sometimes we need to take risks and simply begin instead of getting stuck in our thoughts.
In practice
During a motivational workshop to inspire participants to chase their dreams.
Be easy on yourself. Have fun. Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.
Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better.
Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.
You become more attractive when you love yourself. You ATTRACT the right things when you have a sense of who you are.
We don't want to be afraid to make a choice because we're afraid to make a mistake because most decisions aren't final. Feelings change all the time. You can always change your mind and taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting because we never know what's going to happen. Every day something new comes our way.
Itβs very hard to have ideas. Itβs very hard to put yourself out there, itβs very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.
For those who say you're thinking too big... be smart enough not to listen. For those who say the odds are too small ... be dumb enough to give it a shot. And for those who ask, how can you do that?... look them in the eyes and say, I'll figure it out.
You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it.
Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning - one that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be.
You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.
Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.
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