"Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt."

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Source : Aaron Sorkin's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

Aaron Sorkin

#Inspirational Quotes #Graduation Quotes #Hurt Quotes

“I want painting to be difficult to do.”

Source : "Richard Diebenkorn and the colours of California" by Olivia Laing, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2015.
“I feel like my music stands for the ultimate statement of irreverence.”
“That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.”
“As long as we have books, we are not alone.”
“I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.”
“I write a lot of material you've never heard that live inside my sadness. You'll hear a song that lasts six to seven minutes of just beautiful sadness. But I can't just go out on the stage to ask five thousand people to be sad with me for seven straight minutes,”
“If people talk behind your back, it's because you're ahead of them.”
“Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”

Source : Daniel Defoe (1995). “Robinson Crusoe”, p.122, Wordsworth Editions

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