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The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

Margot Fonteyn
Dance, Attitude, Self Esteem
"Running on Empty: Meditations for Indispensable Women" by Ellen Sue Stern, (p. 235), 1992.
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.