"Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole."

-- Anne Lamott

#Failing Quotes #Instruction Quotes

“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”
“Take some time to play around with segmentation. If you can pinpoint your best and worst customers it's well worth the time.”
“I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.
“If people are going to write bad things about me because it makes news, I can brush it aside because I've had this for 10 years. I'm big enough and strong enough to cope with it. It's what comes with being Alan Shearer.”
“Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.”
“Our evangelical culture tends to take the awesome reality of a transcendent god who is worthy to be feared and downsize Him so He could fit into our "buddy system." The way we talk about Him, the way we pray, and, more strikingly, the way we live shows that we have somehow lost our sense of being appropriately awestruck in the presence of a holy and all-powerful God. It's been a long time since we've heard a good sermon on the "fear of God." If God were to show up visibly, many of us think we'd run up to Him and high-five Him for the good things He has done.”
“Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.”
“I don't like the word soon because you don't know when it's going to sneak up on you and turn into NOW. Or maybe it'll be the kind of soon that never happens.”

Source : Kathryn Erskine (2012). “Mockingbird”, p.28, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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