"The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings)."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

#Differences Quotes #Environment Quotes #Surroundings Quotes

“I have had the experience common to many women, of needing to define myself and to find my self-esteem as a person, not simply as somebody's wife or mother.”
“But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.”

Source : "Ode to a right royal charmer". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2000.
“Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent.”
“I think our drug laws need to be made scientifically, as best as possible, recognizing that values will always be part of that.”
“Bear in mind three essential qualities in all games of intellect:â€“ Never to show selfishness or to wound the feelings of your adversary. To be modest with a good game. To lose without ill-temper, and to win without bragging.”
“My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.”

Source : Beth Revis, Jessica Spotswood, Marie Lu, Ally Condie, Andrea Cremer (2012). “Breathless Reads Sampler”, p.78, Penguin
“I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.”
“I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.”

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