"A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it."

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Source : James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: The Autobiography of James Agate”

James Agate

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“We need to police ourselves in the media.”
“Once I start writing, I am a huge reviser. To me writing is revising. I probably turn over every sentence that I write, to see if I have the rhythm right. That's why my first drafts take a really long time.”

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“I just have to keep working hard.”
“If youâ€™re not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, itâ€™s hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and thatâ€™s really not an ingredient for a happy life.”
“Something to remember on your birthday..Forget the past, it can't be changed..And, forget the present because I didn't get you one.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Prayer in various discord upward flies. For Prayer the ocean is where diversely Men steer their course, each to a sev'ral coast; Where all our interests so discordant be That half beg winds by which the rest are lost. By Penitence when we ourselves forsake, 'Tis but in wise design on piteous Heaven; In Praise we nobly give what God may take, And are, without a beggar's blush, forgiven.”

Source : William Davenant, “Praise And Prayer”
“The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.”
“She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees.”

Source : Lynn Kurland (2011). “Spellweaver”, p.97, Penguin

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