Index4INDEX Card 162: Angela Basset 1
Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had.
-- Angela Bassett
About the Quote
When we succeed, we should be doing so with our best efforts. Sometimes our best efforts are when we're running on all cylinders. Sometimes our best effort is within the context of adversity ranging from a hangover to severe flu to loss of a loved one. Either way, success is best when we gave it our best.
Even if we fail, we can go to bed with a clear conscience in the knowledge that we gave it all we had; it just wasn't enough. That happens, and that's just part of life.
What isn't acceptable is giving average effort to whatever we do. When we succeed using average effort, the success feels cheapend. If we fail while giving average effort, we'll be second-guessing ourselves as to whether giving better effort would have been the difference maker for us. That happens, too, and many regrets are due to the average effort we gave.
Some Information about Angela Bassett
Angela Evelyn Bassett was born in New York, New York, US on 1958-August-16.
She is an actress known for portraying strong women both on the silver screen and in television. Among her movie roles are civil rights activist Rosa Parks in The Rosa Parks Story (2002), Coretta Scott King in Betty and Coretta (2013), singer Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), and Betty Shabazz (wife of Malik eh-Hajj Shabazz, previously known as Malcom X) in both Panther (1995) and Malcom X (1992).
When Angela Bassett was in high school, she saw the John Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men starring James Earl Jones performed on stage. That's when she decided to become an actor. She graduated in 1980 from Yale University with a Bachelor's Degree in African American studies and in earned her Master's Degree in 1983 from the Yale School of Drama. It was at Yale where she met fellow actor Courtney B. Vance, and they married each other in 1997.
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