"Never let too much criticism or too much praise get in your way."

“And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.”

“The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.”

“Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.”

Source : Paul Dickson (2014). “The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects”, p.1, Courier Corporation

“The most difficult part is training and competing while observing the holy month of Ramadan, which involves fasting. The most rewarding part of being a Muslim athlete is my faith in God paired with my faith in myself. I approach every match with positivity and the belief that I can beat anyone on any given day. And in the face of defeat, I am able to learn from my mistakes and work on my weaknesses to prepare for next time.”

Source : "The Road to Rio". Interview with Avery Stone, www.yahoo.com. August 3, 2016.

“Yes, she was a scandal. Her brother simply didn’t know it. “I fell in the Serpentine today.” “Yes, well, that doesn’t usually happen to women in London. But it’s not so much of a scandal as it is a challenge.”

“We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!”

“The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention - incites a pleasurable compulsion to 'follow' - is either a tried metrical suasion-contrivance or a specially invented pattern of physical insistences, equally, if not more, binding in its effect on the reader. From a straight linguistic point of view, there is room for wonder if there is not latent vice in this environment in which pleasurable physically-compelled responses, produced by incidents of poetic utterance, are identified with the Good.”

Source : "The Promise of Words". London Review of Books, Vol. 17, No. 17, p. 23, September 07, 1995.

“Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.”