"When you make a choice to be of service to others, you gain the courage and sense of determination that will fuel your efforts. With a solid vision in place, you also become less concerned with your individual fear or self-doubt and more committed to taking the actions that will support your larger vision."

-- Cheryl Richardson

#Determination Quotes #Helping Others Quotes #Self Quotes

“Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.”

Source : Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.37, Serpent's Tail
“Unless you really stand for something, people aren't motivated to go out and vote for you.”
“What do you think you're doing?”
“I had the greatest sparring partners, I had the greatest sparring team. And these guys they wrapped me up a lot. I never got the chance to get off on them.”
“A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice, some paint it with their own delight. A story must have some points of contact with the reader to make him feel at home in it. Only then can he accept wonders.”
“It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.”
“The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness.”
“To be silent is to be passive.”

Source : "SAG Awards 2012: The Winners' Reactions" by Lesley Goldberg , Borys Kit, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 29, 2012.

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