People will always be around to tell you you're no good or you're wrong or unwise to keep doing what you want to do. They're wrong. They're always wrong. Keep going.
Interpretation
Ignore the naysayers and pursue your passions with confidence.
Elaine Stritch's quote emphasizes the importance of perseverance in the face of negativity and doubt from others. It suggests that despite external criticism, one should remain steadfast in pursuing their goals and passions, as the opinions of others do not define one's worth or the validity of their aspirations.
In practice
In a motivational speech about following your dreams despite adversity.
I don't know what the hell I'm doing up there half the time. These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what technique means. But I do know what experience is. I know in my gut when I've done a scene right.
I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it
One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams.
If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.
Chance favors those who are prepared.
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