"The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say."

-- Milan Kundera

#Writing Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Creative Quotes

“My name is Joel Goodson. I deal in human fulfillment. I grossed over eight thousand dollars in one night.”
“You blows who you is.”
“And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.”
“In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits. [Lat., Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est Externis virtus incomitata bonis.]”
“The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.”
“My genetics are good, but they aren't crazy He-Man style.”

Source : Interview with Mark Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.
“Thoughts are things...treat them accordingly.”
“We are the higher synthesis of the union of the archetypal Mother and Father. As we recognize the divinity within ourselves, we see it in each other and all around us. Through this realization, the world becomes sacred again, infused with intelligence, spirit, and a grand plan for evolutionary awakening.”

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