"I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed."

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Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (1891). “A White Heron”

Sarah Orne Jewett

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“People who dream small dreams continue to live as small people.”
“Discipline is doing what you are supposed to do in the best possible manner at the time you are supposed to do it.”
“Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.”

Source : Carl von Clausewitz (1987). “Roots of Strategy: 3 Military Classics”, p.373, Stackpole Books
“Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.”
“I don't trust anybody in my life except my mother and my dogs.”

Source : "Cheryl Cole: 'I hate this year'" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2010.
“An artist needs to become familiar with that which is most hidden from the self by the self. For this one thing which one fears to know is often the driving force in one's life. These recognitions seen in art are the difference between decent, extraordinary and great.”
“One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.”
“My only wish is that we leave room for hope. There is good and bad in all things. We find what we expect to find. We see what we expect to see. I have learned that if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. The future is bright. There are good things to come.”

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