"I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind -- but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot."

-- Calvin Trillin

#Writing Quotes #Self Confidence Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.”
“Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.”
“You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.”
“There's something really the matter with most people who wear tattoos. There's at least some terrible story. I know from experience that there's always something terribly flawed about people who are tattooed, above some little something that Johnny had done in the Navy, even though that's a bad sign...It's terrible. Psychologically it's crazy. Most people who are tattooed, it's the sign of some feeling of inferiority, they're trying to establish some macho identification for themselves.”
“And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.”
“It is our duty to try to be perfect, â€¦ to improve each day, and look upon our course last week and do things better this week; do things better today than we did them yesterday”

Source : Lorenzo Snow (1984). “The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, Bookcraft Pubs
“The Handmaiden of the Sciences.”
“The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest.”

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