"Mastery is a product of consistently going beyond our limits."

-- Stewart Emery

#Limits Quotes #Mastery Quotes #Consistently Quotes

“Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight?”
“It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.”

Source : "The Middle of Things: Advice for Young Writers" by Andrew Solomon, www.newyorker.com. March 11, 2015.
“Getting a burp out of your little thing when she needs it is probably the greatest satisfaction I've come across at this point in my life.”
“Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.”
“I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.”
“I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.”
“Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of literacy. The most powerful tool that we have to strengthen literacy is often the most underused and overlooked, and that is a child's own stories.”
“The soul of the world is nourished by people's Happiness.”

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