Showing Up Quotes

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  Eighty percent of success is showing up.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  Quoted in Thomas J Peters and Robert H Waterman Among Friends (1982).

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• Half the battle is just showing up.

  Stephen Hawking

  Battle, Half

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• Showing up is essential. Showing up consistently is powerful. Showing up consistently with a positive outlook is even more powerful.

  Jeff Olson

  Powerful, Essentials, Positive Outlook

  Jeff Olson, John David Mann (2013). “The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness”, p.226, Greenleaf Book Group

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• There is nothing more vulnerable than creativity. . . It's not about winning, it's not about losing, it's about showing up and being seen.

  Brené Brown

  Creativity, Winning, Losing

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• I make 50 cents for showing up... and the other 50 cents is based on my performance.

  Steve Jobs

  Cents, Performances

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.30, Prabhat Prakashan

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• You can beat 80% of the competition just by showing up.

  Harvey Mackay

  Competition, Beats

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• What we know matters, but who we are matters more. Being rather than knowing requires showing up and letting ourselves be seen. It requires us to dare greatly, to be vulnerable.

  Brené Brown

  Knowing, Who We Are, Matter

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.23, Penguin

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• Success is an accident. Showing up, even if it’s just for 5 minutes, makes us accident-prone.

  Paul Budnitz

  Minutes, Accidents, Ifs

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• Ninety percent of life is just showing up.

  Woody Allen

  Fitness Motivational, Life Is, Ninety

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• Showing up is not all of life - but it counts for a lot.

  Hillary Clinton

  "On Asia Trip, Clinton Shows How She'll Try to Repair the U.S. Image Around the World" by Glenn Kessler, www.washingtonpost.com. February 20, 2009.

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• I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.

  James Taylor

  Thankfulness, Enough, Without You

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• Don't mistake routine for commitment, just showing up is not enough.

  Tommy Amaker

  Mistake, Commitment, Routine

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• Instead of showing up to let everyone know how great we are, show up to find out how great everyone else is.

  Simon Sinek

  Shows, Know How, Knows

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• Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. Eighty percent of success is showing up.

  Woody Allen

  Ladders, Enough, Building

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• Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

  Brené Brown

  Overcoming Fear, Daring Greatly, Vulnerability

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.34, Penguin

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• If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe our compulsion to wash God's hands for him is a service he doesn't appreciate. Maybe - all theodicies and nearly all theologians to the contrary - evil is where we meet God. Maybe he isn't bothered by showing up dirty for his dates with creation. Maybe - just maybe - if we ever solved the problem, we'd have talked ourselves out of a lover.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Pain, Dirty, Hands

  Robert Farrar Capon (1967). “The Romance of the Word: One Man's Love Affair with Theology : Three Books”, p.170, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be. If your job is to dance, do your dance. If the divine, cockeyed genius assigned to your case decides to let some sort of wonderment be glimpsed, for just one moment through your efforts, then 'Ole!' And if not, do your dance anyhow. And 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless. I believe this and I feel that we must teach it. 'Ole!' to you, nonetheless, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Jobs, Believe, Effort

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• The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful, or hopeless, or pessimistic, or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that you're showing up, that you're here and that you're finding ever more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that. That was what is going to unleash our intelligence and our ingenuity and our solidarity for the healing of our world.

  Joanna Macy

  Healing, Optimistic, Our World

  "Joanna Macy: A Wild Love for the World". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. August 11, 2016.

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• Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

  Joy Browne

  Inspirational, Women, Self Esteem

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• There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a painter, and he used to say, "If the muse is late for work, start without her". You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you're probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Uncles, Writing, Mean

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• Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.

  Brené Brown

  Thinking, People, Might

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• The laughter that happens when people are truth-telling and showing up and being real - I call that "knowing laughter." That's what happens between people when we recognize the absurdity of the belief that we're alone in anything.

  Brené Brown

  Laughter, Real, Knowing

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes only response to pain.

  William J. Clinton

  Life, Uncles, Laughter

  "My Life". Book by William J. Clinton, 2004.

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• Showing up is 80 percent of life.

  Woody Allen

  Percent

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 21 Aug. 1977

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• I don't think my kids have to worry too much about me embarrassing them because that's not how I would want to grow up, with wacky dad showing up at school and performing for everyone.

  Steve Carell

  Dad, Growing Up, Kids

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