"I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second."

-- Lee Child

#Book Quotes #Validation Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Just be careful. Passion is a bridge that connects love and hate. When you're standing in the middle of that bridge, don't let yourself get turned around. You've got to make sure you know which direction you're heading. Watch yourself.”

Source : Jay Bell (2012). “Kamikaze Boys (gay young adult)”, p.221, Jay Bell
“He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of confusion, analogies between phenomena of a different order suggest themselves and set the imagination in motion; the mind is haunted with the sense of a vast unity not yet discoverable or nameable. There is food for contemplation which never runs short; you are gazing at an object which is always growing clearer, and yet always, in the very act of growing clearer, presenting new mysteries.”

Source : "Natural Religion".
“we must never forget that people buy into the leader before they buy into a mission statement.”

Source : James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.174, Crown Business
“Add one little bit on the end... Think of 'potato,' how's it spelled? You're right phonetically, but what else...? There ya go...alright!”
“We see now that infringement of freedom is necessary with regard to the opponents of the revolution. At a time of revolution we cannot allow freedom for the enemies of the people and of the revolution. That is a surely clear, irrefutable conclusion.”

Source : "Programme of the World Revolution". Book by Nikolai Bukharin. Chapter VII: "Freedom for the Working Class and the poorest Elements of the Peasantry; Restrictions for the Bourgeoisie", www.marxists.org. 1918.
“A critic may reject some miracle stories as legendary, and not others, with no inconsistency at all for the simple reason that even if one holds miracles to be possible, one need not hold legends to be impossible! There are other factors, literary and historiographical ones, that might lead a critic to conclude that even though miracles can happen, it does not appear that in this or that case they did.”

Source : Robert M. Price (2008). “Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity”, p.116, Wildside Press LLC
“In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view. You fill the void with self-actualization.”
“Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique. Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.”

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