"If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist."

-- Isaac Asimov

#Inspirational Quotes #Talent Quotes #Measure Of Success Quotes

“To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you mute yourself, or moderate yourself, or repress your proneness to get excited or ecstatic or angry or emotionally involved...that day, you die as a writer.”

Source : Dwight V. Swain (2012). “Techniques of the Selling Writer”, p.13, University of Oklahoma Press
“I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a product of contemporary taste, driven by momentary appetites rather than eternal verities.”
“On recent events in a New York hotel room: What happened was not just inappropriate, it was more than that, it was a fault; a fault toward my wife, my children, my friends but also a fault toward the French people who placed in me their hope for change.”
“People should be interested in books, not their authors.”
“I've learned a couple of things. And one of the things I have learned is that every experience has pluses and minuses.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.”
“I learned to fall down early in life - I was like six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.”
“[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.”

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