"Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure."

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Source : Margaret Drabble (2014). “The Millstone”, p.5, Canongate Books

Margaret Drabble

#Succeed Quotes #Failing Quotes

“Medical thinking usually sees stress as highly disturbing but isolated events such as, for example, sudden unemployment, a marriage breakup, or the death of a loved one. These major events are potent sources of stress for many, but there are chronic daily stresses in people's lives that are more insidious and more harmful in their long-term biological consequences. Internally generated stresses take their toll without in any way seeming out of the ordinary.”
“The soul that has learned the blessed secret of seeing God's hand in all that concerns it, cannot be a prey to fear, it looks beyond all second causes, straight into the heart and will of God, and rests content, because He rules.”
“I’ve always tried to find God in lots of different things, whether that’s been drugs, women, etc, etc… But all those things are tangible and they exist and you can see them and you can feel them. Music doesn’t exist, physically. Yet is commands ever facet of my personality and it has the power to command people how to feel on a physical level, uncontrollably. And I find that so fascinating.”
“Lucas had told me only one lie, ever; he kept the secret of black Cross because it wasnâ€™t his secret to tell. In every other way, heâ€™d been honest with me and shared the hard truths nobody else thought I deserved to hear.”
“As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.”
“After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.”
“People love in different ways. You may have a man who brings you flowers every Monday but doesn't give two hooty-hoots about Valentine's Day. Just because he doesn't give you a valentine doesn't mean he doesn't love you!”
“The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now.”

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