"Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one."

-- Vikram Seth

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Successful Quotes

“Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.”
“We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.”

Source : Sam Keen (1980). “What to do when you're bored and blue”
“I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.”
“I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than in their own self- interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that's it.”
“There are no free lunches on welfare.”
“I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. I find it so interesting that so many people rush into the commitment of marriage, which is a legal contract, without knowing anything about what the expectations of the other person are, and they've not explained or articulated their expectations of the other person.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care.”
“An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.”

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