When you fear to fail, you fear something that has not happened yet. You predict your own failure, and by inaction, lock yourself into it. (Robin Hobb)

When you fear to fail, you fear something that has not happened yet. You predict your own failure, and by inaction, lock yourself into it.

Robin Hobb

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