I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. ~Robert Kiyosaki
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Music is the eye of the ear. ~Thomas Draxe
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"Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts." ~John Green
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I dream about people who do not need to have sex to know they love each other. ~Carol Rifka Brunt
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When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.
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Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. ~Norman Vincent Peale
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I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
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What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure. ~Sherwood Anderson
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Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune. ~Proverb
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. ~English Proverb
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
#quotes #ursula-k-le-guin #reading #novels

I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something. ~Jerry Seinfeld
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?" ~Brian Tracy
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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In life, sometimes everything falls into place, and sometimes everything just falls to pieces. The key is to begin creating with these fallen pieces. By improvising, you will create something magical that might be the best thing you have ever accomplished. ~Tori Amos
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It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right winger. ~Robert Winston
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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