John Farrar famous quotes

I do think it imperative that you recover from fear of rejection. Forgive me, but that is the sin of pride, and you must avoid that particular manifestation of the sin if you are to reach the goal . . . you hope for.
-- John Farrar

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Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers.
-- John Farrar

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The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place. With this firmly in mind, he has no right to become discouraged just because other people are being published.
-- John Farrar

#Writing #People #Mind

Always bear in mind that boys are naturally wiser than you. Regard them as intellectual beings, who have access to certain sources of knowledge of which you are deprived, and seek to derive all the benefit you can from their peculiar attainments and experience.
-- John Farrar

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Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.

Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers.

I have a lot of passion. I have a lot of pride. I think I do get that from my family. But you can be driven and be nice.

You were a stray cat, strutting so free and full of pride. But I could see your open wound. And without really thinking I just chalked it up to another cool thing about you. I never realized how much you hurt.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.