"If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero."

-- Alfred P. Sloan

#Hero Quotes #Heroism Quotes #Ends Quotes

“If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection; I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks.”

Source : Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.169, Courier Corporation
“Experience precedes understanding.”
“Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?”
“Be still and quiet, tune in with the Infinite Intelligence, and continue in right thought, right feeling, and right action, and you will arrive at your goal.”

Source : Joseph Murphy (1973). “Secrets of the I ching”
“Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell a great story, write well, not be condescending-all in a few pages.”

Source : "The World Doesn't Need Another Rhyming Tooth Fairy Story: A Conversation with Children's Book Agent Andrea Brown". Interview with Anna Olswanger, www.underdown.org. 1998.
“If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.”

Source : Salvador Dali (2013). “50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship”, p.15, Courier Corporation
“...men aren't in touch with their emotions, and don't share enough [?]”
“If it is sweet to be right, then - let's not deny it - it is downright savory to point out that someone else is wrong.”

Source : Kathryn Schulz (2010). “Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error”, p.8, Harper Collins

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