"It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it."

-- Laini Taylor

#Book Quotes #Worry Quotes #Finishing Quotes

“Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.”
“A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published; a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because he thinks heÃ•s a hero already.”
“True listening is never self-effacement. We bring the whole self to the process, rather than denying self. When we truly listen, we aren't just waiting for someone else to decide something so we can get on with things, or so we don't have to decide for ourselves. We aren't giving away our own powers to be seen and heard. When we listen, first we listen to the parts of ourselves that are curious, in avoidance, afraid, angry, or proud. Then we can take a breath and sink, allowing those parts some space alongside the spaciousness of not knowing.”

Source : T. Thorn Coyle (2013). “Make Magic of Your Life: Passion, Purpose, and the Power of Desire”, p.34, Weiser Books
“I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.”
“Someone once I asked my son Cruz, 'When's your birthday?' and he told them, 'It's just after Fashion Week!'”
“All doctrines relating to the creation of the world, the government of man by superior beings, and his destiny after death, are conjectures which have been given out as facts, handed down with many adornments by tradition, and accepted by posterity as "revealed religion". They are theories more or less rational which uncivilised men have devised in order to explain the facts of life, and which civilised men believe that they believe.”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.179
“I don't come from a musical family and didn't go to Julliard or anything, but I had this kind of vision of stuff that was so powerful that I just needed to find it. I have no regrets.”

Source : "'Songs I Can Sing Ya': An Interview with Andy Kim and Kevin Drew". Interview With Evan Sawdey, www.popmatters.com. February 24, 2015.
“Often, people who can do, donâ€™t because theyâ€™re afraid of what people that canâ€™t do will say about them doing.”

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