"Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up."

-- Jane Yolen

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“The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks out of doors. When a dog really loves, it prefers the person who gives it nothing, and perhaps is too ill ever to take it out for exercise, to all the liberal cooks and active dog-boys in the world.”

Source : "The Confessions of a Lost Dog" by Frances Power Cobbe, London: Griffith & Farran, (pp. 15-16), 1867.
“A smart salesperson listens to emotions not facts.”
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.”
“I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I'm thinking about it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.”
“We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.”
“I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers.”
“The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.”

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