"Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking."

-- John F. Carlson

#Strength Quotes #Voice Quotes #Weakness Quotes

“If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist].”
“Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.”
“As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.”
“When we are eager to be shy and humble about our accomplishments, we lose confidence in our abilities.”
“While traveling our separated roads through life, we are also either road signs or potholes on the roads of others.”

Source : "Cellar Door", Vol. 12(2), p. 50, Spring 1985.
“One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.”
“We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.”
“At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.”

Source : "Jennifer Carpenter: I’m ready for Deb to learn Dexter’s secret". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. February 15, 2011.

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