Life is not a dress rehearsal (quotes)

Life is not a dress rehearsal

  • Life ain’t no rehearsal, the cameras always rolling. Drake
  • Life isn’t a dress rehearsal. Kerry Packer
  • After all – life is not a dress rehearsal! Richard Branson
  • Life is not a dress rehearsal – every day is opening night. Peter J. Daniels
  • This is no dress rehearsal. Phil McGraw
  • When I turned 50, I looked in the mirror and I thought: “Hey, this isn’t the dress rehearsal, this is life and I don’t know how much longer I’m going to have!” Tina Fey
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This it it! 

  • Life is definitely not a rehearsal, this is it. Mike Watt
  • People treat life as though it’s the dress rehearsal for some big show. It’s not. This is it. Jane Seymour
  • Life is not a dress rehearsal – wake up every day excited to live out your purpose. Andrew Wommack
  • Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it. Fletcher Knebel
  • Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now. Judith Malina
  • This is not a dress rehearsal; this is your life. Bill Murray
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Life is the rehearsal for life itself

  • And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? Milan Kundera
  • It occurred to me, then, how nearly real life resembles the first rehearsal of a play. We are all of us stumbling through it, doing our best to say the proper lines and make the proper moves, but not quite comfortable yet in the parts we’ve been given. Still, like players who trust that -despite all evidence to the contrary- the whole mess will make sense eventually, we keep on going, hoping that somehow things will work out for the best. Gary L. Blackwood
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Therefore, stop playing it too safe or holding back

  • It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is no safety net and no assurance of any final closure. It is also quite appalling to realize how catatonic the imagination can become when we hedge our bets, opt for the safer direction at every fork in the path. John Burdett
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Therefore, just do it without over-preparation

  • Life is not a dress rehearsal. Stop practicing what you’re going to do and just go do it. In one bold stroke you can transform today. Marilyn Grey
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Therefore, enjoy life and live it up

  • Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal. Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Don’t wait for miracles. Your whole life is a miracle. Live it up and dare to leave an impact. There is no rehearsal. Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Therefore, do what you love…

  • It is important to remember that life is not a dress rehearsal and that none of us should waste our time on doing things that don’t spark fires within us. My golden rule for business and life is: We should all enjoy what we do and do what we enjoy. Richard Branson
  • You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it. Lucinda Bassett
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…and make the most of life

  • Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. Wayne Dyer
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Therefore, do things well

  • It’s a cliché – but true – that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well. Yanni
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Whatever people say, life is not a rehearsal for heaven

  • We get 80 years, maybe at the most 100. Trillions of years in eternity. This life is preparation for the next. This is the warm-up back, this is the dress rehearsal, this is the get ready, this is the first lap around the track before the real race begins because it is in eternity. Rick Warren
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Most of all, don’t treat life as a rehearsal for what you post online

  • Shakespeare would have it wrong these days. It’s not the world that’s the stage – it’s social media, where you’re trying to put on a show. The rest of your life is rehearsals, prepping in the wings to be fabulous online. Lauren Beukes
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