"How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?"

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Source : Amy Tan (1992). “The Kitchen God's wife”, Thorndike Pr

Amy Tan

#Weakness Quotes #Done Quotes #Blame Quotes

“But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.”
“OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.”
“Songwriting's a weird game.”
“If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.”
“And itâ€™s more. Itâ€™s about getting past that question of whats wrong with me, to knowing thereâ€™s nothing wrong, that you were born this way. You're a normal person and a beautiful person and you should be proud of who you are. You deserve to live and live with dignity and show people your pride.”
“Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.”
“"When in your life were you the most challenged?" I love to hear stories of adversity and how people overcome them.”
“To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you mute yourself, or moderate yourself, or repress your proneness to get excited or ecstatic or angry or emotionally involved...that day, you die as a writer.”

Source : Dwight V. Swain (2012). “Techniques of the Selling Writer”, p.13, University of Oklahoma Press

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