"When you reach a place where you feel blocked, lower your standards and keep on going. There is no possible way to do permanent damage to a piece of writing. You cannot ruin it. You can only make it a little better a little at a time."

-- Richard Bausch

#Writing Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Littles Quotes

“The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.”
“The green is so narrow that if you over-club, you've got an impossible bunker shot. If you're short, you're pretty much dead.”
“Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to.”

Source : John Anthony, Robert Anthony (1984). “The ultimate secrets of total self-confidence”, Berkley
“You must stand for free speech in the streets.”
“The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.”
“For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other religious history â€“ perhaps like no other book in any religious history- and still it stands.â€ Jeffrey R. Holland”
“Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.”
“It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right.”

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