"Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day."

-- Julia Cameron

#Talent Quotes #Tenacity Quotes

“One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if they do, they've failed. They should leave someone behind every time.”

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“Embarrassment is the worst! It's the feeling of having your entire body go numb and not knowning what to do with yourself for that one moment”
“Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the place that's most interesting to me as a reporter.”
“The words 'God is love' conclude a biblical warning, not a warm and fuzzy slogan. 'He who doesn't love [his neighbor] doesn't love God, for God is love.'”
“I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.”
“Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal.”
“In my hands the means... In my heart the will.”
“You'll have many, many friends, but if your relationship with your mate is one hundred per cent of your heart, you'll never need a friend.”

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