"If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place"

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David Nicholls

#Secret Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The most important rule: Do not, I repeat, do not censor yourself in any way. Leave your editorial mind out of the loop. Just let the ideas come pouring out in any way, shape, or form they want to. Do not judge anything.”

Source : James Scott Bell (2004). “Write Great Fiction - Plot & Structure”, p.44, Writer's Digest Books
“You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.”

Source : Nancy Kress (2009). “Steal Across the Sky”, p.12, Macmillan
“Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is.”

Source : Andy Couturier (2010). “A Different Kind of Luxury: Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance”, p.222, Stone Bridge Press
“You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.”
“It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.”
“I think going public should not be a goal and the more that we make it a goal, the less it will be a goal. It's kind of like, I have three young children and when I tell them to eat vegetables, the last thing they will ever do is eat vegetables. I think it's just this weird thing where entrepreneurs have a reflexive negative reaction when people are pushing for it. I think you have to view going public for what it is, which is a transitional moment where you can consolidate mindshare and win at an even larger scale.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.”
“Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto unexplored regions, formed prematurely from a knowledge of only certain parts of the world, has undergone a decisive transformation. This conception, however, is always decisive for the future course of research.”

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