Choose the best player for every position, and you'll end up not with a strong XI, but with 11 strong 1's.
I am not, nor will I ever be interested in the possibility of defeat.
If you believe in yourself, things are possible.
You have to dream big and go for it. Surround yourself with people who believe in you and ignore those who try to bring you down. Never give up, no matter what - overcoming obstacles makes you stronger!
Dream big and surround yourself with people that believe in you
If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N. A. A. C. P. would be in true crisis.
Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist, except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice.
For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.
I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.