"Preparation is not only about managing external risks, but about limiting the likelihood that you'll unwittingly add to them. When you're the author of your own fate, you don't want to write a tragedy. Aside from anything else, the possibility of a sequel is nonexistent."

-- Chris Hadfield

#Writing Quotes #Fate Quotes #Risk Quotes

“He waved to the city and said good-bye. The city responded by carrying on the way it always did, traffic moving forward uninterrupted, without slowing, as if it were trying to demonstrate its permanence and show him it would still be there if he ever wanted to return. That promise was the best and only thing he could ask of it.”

Source : Matthew J. Kirby (2012). “The Clockwork Three”, p.372, Scholastic Inc.
“Whatever's lost, it first was won.”
“You're so convinced you'll disappoint people if you show them that you're not perfect. You don't realize you are perfect. Your imperfections are what make you perfect. They make you you. That's what people love. It's what I love too.”
“Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.”
“Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language-One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap”
“Focus on performance. Outcome is going to happen. No stress about that. Focus on performance.”
“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”
“Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself.”

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