"Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts."

-- Wallace D. Wattles

#Greatness Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Do you know how writers often say the characters take over... But that is more or less what it always feels like to me, too. Even though that's just a way of describing how your brain is working, it's still what you tend to feel.”
“We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.”
“I shared a bed with my sister, Grace, until I was seventeen years old. She was afraid to sleep alone and would begin asking me around 5:00 P.M. every day whether she could sleep with me. I put on a big show of saying no, taking pleasure in watching her beg and sulk, but eventually I always relented. Her sticky, muscly little body thrashed beside me every night as I read Anne Sexton, watched reruns of SNL, sometimes even as I slipped my hand into my underwear to figure some stuff out.”
“Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.”
“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Don't go through life, grow through life.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.”
“I'm always looking for great songs, and not being much of a songwriter, I depend on great songwriters to send them to me. I go through tons of stuff, and sometimes you just find material that kind of fits and becomes something special.”
“When you don't know what the answer is, you know *Who* the answer is.”

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