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There’s A Redemptive Power That Making A Choice Has Rather Than Feeling Like You’re An Effect To All The Things That Are Happening. Make A Choice. Just Decide What It’s Gonna Be, Who You’re Gonna Be, How You Are Going To Do It. Just Decide. And From That Point, The Universe Will Get Out Of Your Way.

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There’s A Redemptive Power

Will Smith

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There’s A Redemptive Power That Making A Choice Has Rather Than Feeling Like You’re An Effect To All The Things That Are Happening. Make A Choice. Just Decide What It’s Gonna Be, Who You’re Gonna Be, How You Are Going To Do It. Just Decide. And From That Point, The Universe Will Get Out Of Your Way.

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Make A Choice Of What You Want, Who You Want To Be And How You're Going To Do It. The Universe Will Get Out Of Your Way.

You Might Have More Talent Than Me, You Might Be Smarter Than Me, You Might Be Sexier Than Me, You Might Be All Of Those Things You Got It On Me In Nine Categories. But If We Get On The Treadmill Together, There Are Two Things: You're Getting Off First, Or I'm Going To Die. It's Really That Simple, Right?

I’m A Student Of Patterns. At Heart, I’m A Physicist. I Look At Everything In My Life As Trying To Find The Single Equation, The Theory Of Everything.

I Want To Be The Person That Is The First Person There And The Last Person To Leave. That's Who I Want To Be, Because I Think The Road To Success Is Through Commitment, And Through The Strength To Drive Through That Commitment When It Gets Hard. And It Is Going To Get Hard And You're Going To Want To Quit Sometimes, But It'll Be Colored By Who You Are, And More By Who You Want To Be.

You Can Create Whatever You Want. You Just Have To Know What You Want And Take The Opportunities As They Come Your Way. We Are Who We Choose To Be.

So If You Stay Ready, You Ain't Gotta Get Ready, And That Is How I Run My Life.

Sitting In The Movie Theater Watching "star Wars," I've Never Had An Experience With Any Form Of Entertainment That Was Like That. It Was Almost Spiritual. I Couldn't Believe That Someone's Mind Created That. And, Right, It Felt Like George Lucas Had A Piano That Was Playing My Emotions, And He Could Go Ahead And Do Whatever He Wanted And Make Me Lean Forward If He Wanted, Or He Could Make Me Go Oh, Or He Could Make Me Hide My Face.

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