"Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God."

-- Alan Paton

#Taught Quotes #Expect Nothing Quotes #Results Quotes

“Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with.”
“What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.”
“I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My gift is completely different. It's for presenting an imaginative version of the world which I hope people would recognize and be affected by.”
“I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life.”
“I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.”
“When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.”
“A building get torched. All that is left is ashes. I used to think that it is true about everything - family, friends, feelings - but now I know that sometimes if love proves real, and two people are meant to be together, nothing can keep them apart.”
“But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man.”

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