"Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use."

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Source : Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.119, Random House

Eric Weiner

#Skills Quotes #Use Quotes #Compromise Quotes

“There is no such thing as a powerful prayer; we only have powerful people praying to a powerful God.”
“I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.”
“For me, a song doesn't really take flight until it has a lyric on it. ...Without a lyric that I'm happy with, it could be the greatest song ever melodically or arrangement-wise, but it doesn't have any resonance.”
“I don't think I make genre movies. There is a certain type of violence in my films but I think I have my own genre because I made it happen like that.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.”
“I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.”
“Sunshine Cake is just a fun hobby thing. That's about it.”
“Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.”

Source : Fay Weldon (2014). “Wicked Women”, p.246, Head of Zeus

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