Counting Errors
“Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.”
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Victims of Our Own Talent and Shortcomings
“We are all the victims of our own talent and our own shortcomings sometimes, and we have to be aware of those things because they will trip us up and stop us from achieving what our aims are.” – Angela … Continue reading →
Disappointment and Hope
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” – Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Continue reading →Trying Too Hard
“Many things—such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly—are done worst when we try hardest to do them.” – C. S. Lewis
Continue reading →Knowing About Good and Evil
“You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly: while you are making them you cannot see them. You can understand the nature of drunkenness … Continue reading →
A Story’s Happy Ending
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” – Orson Welles
Continue reading →Love Your Enemies
“Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.” – Benjamin Franklin
Continue reading →Comparison and Self-Contentment
“Comparison is the death of true self-contentment” – John Powell
Continue reading →Scars
“Heroes always have their scars. Some you see, some you read about later on.” – George Foreman
Continue reading →The Creative Process
“The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off—it’s with you all the time.” – Alvin Ailey
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