"Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time."

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Source : Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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“To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of sun on blue water. It brings meekness and inspiration from the decency of nature, charity toward tackle-makers, patience toward fish, a mockery of profits and egos, a quieting of hate, a rejoicing that you do not have to decide a darned thing until next week. And it is discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.”

Source : Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”
“My life needs editing.”
“Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.”

Source : Wilt Chamberlain (1992). “A View from Above”, Signet
“Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.”
“The art of injudicious reading, the art of miscellaneous reading which every normal man ought to cultivate, is a very fine and satisfactory art; for the best guide to books is a book itself. It clasps hands with a thousand other books.”

Source : Maurice Francis Egan (1922). “Confessions of a Book-lover”
“I have often noticed that the need for cash and the production of a masterpiece just don't coincide with me. Money will hit me at a big off-period and genius will hit me in starvation, that is, I often get the money when I don't think I deserve it and have been lolling around for days and days thinking the most abysmal thoughts.”

Source : Bessie Head, Randolph Vigne (1991). “A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979”, Heinemann
“I don't consider myself a very religious person in any.”
“The greatest gift is a passion for reading.”

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