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When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there's a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we're going to see things through to the finish or quit.

Joyce Meyer

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Joyce Meyer
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 4
Author
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St. Louis
Missouri
Pauline Joyce Hutchison
Make
Periods
Feeds
Things
Emotion
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Progress
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Waiting
Quitting
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