"Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work ... and if you can build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency."

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Source : "Patti Smith: Advice to the Young". Patti Smith's interview with Christian Lund at the Louisiana Literature festival at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, vimeo.com. August 24, 2012.

William S. Burroughs

#Successful Quotes #Names Quotes #Worry Quotes

“As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.”
“When Jesus died on the cross and cried out, 'It is finished!' He not only died for our sins, but for our diseases too.”
“Getting old in America ... best to do it somewhere else.”

Source : Nicole Hollander (2007). “Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial”
“I believe a lot in destiny and I think that if something didn't happen, it was for a reason.”

Source : "Didier Drogba: 'Having a stadium named after me is historic'". Interview with David Hytner, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2010.
“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?”
“The postcard is sacred to me. It makes me sad that no one sends them very much anymore because of email and texting. I still like to buy them, but they've lost their original function and now just seem like reminders or mementos of what they used to be.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“G.K. Chesterton once said: If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. I live by this philosophy when I teach writing. It seems to me vastly more important that a student try a new technique in her writing, and use it imperfectly, than never try the technique at all.”
“Basically the job of a magician is to do impossible things that challenge the nature of the universe. And I think some magicians buy into that perception a little too much. These days that turns people off a little bit. I'm not a wizard. I don't have special powers. If I did, I would not be doing magic for a living!”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com

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