"I haven't written anything yet that makes me think, This is it! and I don't imagine I ever will. I don't know how it is with you, but when I finish something, even when I'm pleased with the results, it never quite matches the shimmering vision that was out ahead of me as I wrote."

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Debra Dean

#Thinking Quotes #Vision Quotes #Never Quit Quotes

“Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.”
“To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.”
“What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place.”
“If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.”
“It doesn't matter what people thinks of you as long as you know that your heart and head are in the right place.”
“I am a bit of a workaholic, and I am still not sure what a "weekend" is all about. I love what I do, and I do what I love.”
“While most managers spend their time attempting to predict the future accurately - and while that's valuable - the best managers are able to generate a future which was not going to happen otherwise - that is, a future which was not predictable.”
“It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.”

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