In order to make himself appear more important, a miller/commoner lied to the king that his daughter could spin straw into gold. The king called for the girl, shut her in a tower room with straw and a spinning wheel, and demanded that she spin the straw into gold by morning, for three nights, or be executed
:(

ach, wie gut, dass niemand weiß,
dass ich rumpelstilzchen heiß!

gebrüder grimm

Cora Smith: Das stelle ich links Nick, wenn er zurückkommt, bevor wir tun und findet es ...
Frank Chambers: Wo hast du sie verlassen?
Cora Smith: In der Kasse!
Frank Richter: Das ist toll, daß der erste Platz, er wird's freuen.

"actually, it's "if you want something you've never HAD before, you've got to do something you've never done before." it was used in a nike or adidas ad involving basketball players a couple years ago, but i'm sure that's not the first time it's been used. i've "heard" that it is said fairly often at 12-step meetings, and they are anonymous so i couldn't tell you who said it or if i was there or not.
;-)

corollaries include: "if you want to go somewhere you've never been before, you have to take a path you've never taken before" and "if you don't want the same results you've always gotten, quit doing the things you've always done."

Reaching Your Dream Takes Courage

Courage is admitting that you're afraid and facing that fear directly. It's being strong enough to ask for help and humble enough to accept it.

Courage is standing up for what you believe in without worrying about the opinions of others. It's following your own heart, living your own life, and settling for nothing less than the best for yourself.

Courage is daring to take a first step, a big leap, or a different path. It's attempting to do something that no one has done before and all others thought impossible.

Courage is keeping heart in the face of disappointment and looking at defeat not as an end but as a new beginning. It's believing that things will ultimately get better even as they get worse.

Courage is being responsible for your own actions and admitting your own mistakes without placing blame on others. It's relying not on others for your success, but on your own skills and efforts.

Courage is refusing to quit even when you're intimidated by impossibility. It's choosing a goal, sticking with it, and finding solutions to the problems.

Courage is thinking big, aiming high, and shooting far. It's taking a dream and doing anything, risking everything, and stopping at nothing to it make it a reality.

~ Caroline Kent

"I'm not better than anybody else. I don't want to look like a fellow who tells other people what to do"
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901037,00.html#ixzz0hE8509R5

i give up

Up (Single Disc Widescreen) (2009) ??

We are all failures; at least, the best of us are.

- J.M. Barrie

You know, I forget how young you are, Mitch, that you think you have to be a prick to get things done, and that you actually think that that's a new idea.