"If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next piece, you suddenly find oddly enough that you're no more interested in the applause than the silence. You don't hear either one of them. You can never listen to the naysayers. If you do you won't survive."

-- James Lee Burke

#Writing Quotes #Worry Quotes #Silence Quotes

“I love a challenge and the last four years it has all come to fruition and it has been wonderful.”
“Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.”
“Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.”
“Take note of what's around you and maximise sensory pleasure.”
“A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.”
“Meeting a stranger can be totally fleeting and meaningless, for example, unless you enter the individualâ€™s world by finding out at least one thing that is meaningful to his or her life and exchange at lest one genuine feeling. Tuning in to others is a circular flow: you send yourself out toward people; you receive them as they respond to you.”
“A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.”
“I was particularly drawn to Berlin because of its literal, concrete division. Two halves making a whole, or two entities that were altered doubles of each other? Twins that had been separated and kept in neighbouring houses and raised according to different sets of rules as a social experiment? It was irresistible as a metaphor for division in the mind, for a split personality.”

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