"Success is like a fart - only your own smells nice."

-- James P. Hogan

#Success Quotes #Nice Quotes #Smell Quotes

“She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.”
“Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive.”
“Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced by information about the writer's work.”

Source : Leland Ryken (2011). “The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing”, p.157, Shaw Books
“It's a wisdom that comes from seeing how things work. Things you want to happen always take a long time.' She pointed one little finger at the meech dragon and shook it in his face. 'You may read books and know bunches, but I have lived life longer than you.”

Source : Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonQuest: A Novel”, p.282, WaterBrook
“If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.”
“A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.”
“If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable.”
“I hear some guy teaches a course in diagrammatic thinking now; he's written books on it and stuff like that, and so it was kind of natural for me. Because it was a way in which words naturally fitted into something that's visual. I was always interested in doing that.”

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