"Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market."

-- Lydia Davis

#Worry Quotes #Want Quotes #Littles Quotes

“. . . But experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is instirring within us the will to aspire. That will, wherever it finally leads, does at least move you forward. And after a time you may recognize That the proper measure of success is not how much you've closed the distance to some far-off goal but the quality of what you've done today.”
“I had a new idea on the way to this meeting this morning, but that doesn't mean we should put it in the platform.”
“Were in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.”
“You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.”
“There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman! No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.”

Source : Samuel Gompers (1957). “Seventy years of life and labor: an autobiography”
“Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.”

Source : Helen Hunt Jackson, “Chance”
“You have to stay in character in between takes.”
“It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.”

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