"The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period."

-- Steve Almond

#Giving Up Quotes #Stress Quotes #Taken Quotes

“People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves”
“The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.”

Source : "A 'Cooked Seed' Sprouts After All, In America". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 12, 2013.
“The flow of blessings in our life is directly related to our passing blessings along to someone else.”

Source : Thomas Kinkade (2013). “A Christmas Celebration”, p.61, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“I think we have to find somebody out there to beat New England besides us, and I think that would help. Anybody out there that wants to sign up for it? Are you good enough as a team to beat the New England Patriots? Forget about us, are you good enough to go out and beat the New England Patriots? I'm challenging the league.”
“I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!”
“I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.”
“I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.”
“to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief.”

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