You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.
And I think that’s a lot of the reason why when you start to fragment your audience, you start to think about what you’re looking for, you’ll go to different spaces, and it parallels what we do as adults. You go to different bars when you’re in the mood for different things. You see different people when you want to go listen to music or when you just want to have a quiet drink with a couple of friends.
If you never quit, youll never fail.
Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.
Love what you are doing because that’s the only way you’ll ever be really good at it.
If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.
The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them. ” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want. ” This isn’t love at all - it is attachment - and attachment is rigid, it is very different from love.
The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier to take it up again. If you exhaust yourself, then you’ll get into a dead spell and you’ll have trouble with it.
Listen to me, kitten. Win or lose, you’ll always be a princess to me.
No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You’ll have lots of company.
Do anything better than it was ever done before and youll get rich.
Youll have the same problems when I walk out, as you had when I walked in. . . unless you let me take your problems with me.
if you put your trust in God, you’ll be all right in the end.
I want to find people who have had to work hard and who have learned from their failures. Perseverance is no guarantee you’ll succeed, but without it, it’s almost guaranteed you won’t.
I absolutely think that happiness is a choice. One of the most potent forces in human psychology is the power of habit. Do something, think something, often enough and it will become the only thing you can do or think. Choose to be unhappy and soon that’s all you will be. Live in a swamp and you’ll grow webbed feet.
The more you travel, the more well-off youll be, I think.
If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.
If you’re looking for hope and change, you’ll find a lot of both in the direction of Rome. It’s the best kind of hope because it offers forever and the best kind of change because it happens in your own life.
The smartest people I know have that extra edge. The risk is always there that youll look terribly undignified and slobbering, and inside I cringe about that, but I should be more aggressive.
You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.