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Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.


Jacques Barzun

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ELIZABETH ALRAUNE If you can't be yours while being mine, maybe you aren't as yours as you'd like to convince yourself...
ALEKSANDRA NINKOVIC As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you c...
TOM HANKS Being right is not as important as being able to convince people that you are right.
TARY C. Be yourself. Who cares? You do. It matters to no one. It matters to you. You are not perfect. Neithe...
NANA ADJOA SAAM IRENE NYAME YE AGGREY-FYNN How do you convince yourself that you are not what your parents told you you are? Look up!
CRISTABEL MICHAELS No matter how smart you are you can never convince someone stupid that they are stupid.
ANONYMOUS Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE As long as you have a debt from the bank, you are working for them, not for yourself.
ZENG HAN JUN The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that y...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Not too many people have tried marbling on wood. You turn the cover, and there is marble paper.
BILL KEIM Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure ...
VIRCHAND GANDHI The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le...
GARY F EVANS... You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold rig...
BARRY MUNRO The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until ...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like ...
C. JOYBELL C. As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you ...
OMAR KHAYYáM England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
JOHN BURROUGHS Read your paper backward, sentence by sentence, as a final proofreading step. This technique ...
CLAIRE B. MAY GORDON S. MAY What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b...
STEPHEN R. COVEY The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and tr...
ALEX SANCHEZ Convince yourself everyday that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay posit...
GERMANY KENT At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be pub...
ALISTAIR BEGG What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as y...
ANDRE GIDE Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentenc...
JOHN JAKES Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence...
JOHN JAKES It’s a general rule – a law of space, as it was a law of the sea in the old days, that ships had...
CHRISTINA ENGELA They are ridiculously good. They're not unbeatable, but you see on [ranking] Web sites that their wh...
JOHN O'CONNELL If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and him...
E.M. FORSTER IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
NOT SURE i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i...
NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste...
NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE Oh, my child, can you not see? You must let go of yourself. For if a seed wishes to live, it must sa...
SETH ADAM SMITH I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own ina...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Too much research can be the writer's enemy. You can spend days on end in the British Library or...
MARK BILLINGHAM We need to keep playing as a team, and keep working on our defense and not make stupid fouls.
ERIN LIND Do not let that game destroy your life. Get rid of it, get outside..
TREVON CLARK Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth o...
EBEN ALEXANDER He hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you ...
TRACY KIDDER In science, it doesn't matter if you're wrong, as long as you're not stupid. In business, it doesn...
UNKNOWN I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Unt...
RICHARD BACH You lie to convince people you are not a monster . . . not that you are one.
JODI PICOULT The first thing is to convince yourself that life's more fun if you love yourself. Don't worry about...
DR. LYNN CUTTS If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in poli...
BEAU WILLIMON Let he who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
THOMAS CARLYLE And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS As an individual, if you are not playing as well as you like, you are always putting a bit more pres...
RICKY PONTING As you entered the room the thing drew your eyes: you turned sharply as to a sound, expecting moveme...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourse...
NICOLE KIDMAN Guard yourself from things and people that will try to convince you that your life is not good enoug...
C.S. LEWIS You are as amazing as you let yourself be.Let me repeat that.Youareasamazingasyouletyourselfbe.
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE I am not the potter, nor the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay, does it depend on the value achi...
STEPHEN KING In a very basic way, a prominent landmark such as Mt. Holyoke tells you where you are. They let you ...
TRACY KIDDER As long as you have good intentions, you respect yourself, and wish the good to others as much as yo...
REEM AL OLABY Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as...
THOMAS A KEMPIS Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as y...
THOMAS à KEMPIS Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as y...
THOMAS A KEMPIS Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as y...
THOMAS KEMPIS As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing.
EVANDER HOLYFIELD Do not allow yourself to become overwhelmed. Instead, break your struggle into smaller tasks, immers...
ANTHONY MAGESTRO Miami is not as strong as people think they are. That could be an upset in the first round.
REGGIE MILLER Do not love your neighbour as yourself. If you are on good terms with yourself it is an impertinence...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
CONFUCIUS They are not working in sync. Working on the same thing at the same time is not as effective as work...
REGGIE JOINER You will find yourself, as he did. But that will not mean it is easy. There are few things easy in l...
METTE IVIE HARRISON Jesus says to anyone who uses their faith or lack of faith to excuse their acts of disobedience to h...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER How do you convince someone to change, to stop being afraid of himself? How do you convince yourself...
CHARLES YU And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wa...
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind w...
ANTHON ST. MAARTEN When you are working in your office, I am not telling you to be a no-mind. When you are working in y...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on socie...
NELSON MANDELA Why do women waste their time trying to convince their insecure family members and girlfriends that ...
SHANNON L. ALDER You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.
ANNE BRONTë Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
OSCAR WILDE The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN We got in that habit of being too protective and not wanting to give something up. When you think li...
GREG PUHALSKI God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you ...
MEISTER ECKHART I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself t...
NICOLE KIDMAN I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
GEORGE ORWELL He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a qua...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It’s not as easy as you’d think, burning a dead creature. Flesh and skin want to cook and crisp ...
CHRISTINA HENRY First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified bef...
DOROTHY DAY Vaults and caskets are not the law; they are the policy of individual cemeteries. Vaults prevent the...
CAITLIN DOUGHTY As a working mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a stay-at-home mother, th...
KAREN FINERMAN To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppresse...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE You got to be careful mentioning people as great as Clint Eastwood. You can't put me in the same...
JASON STATHAM Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
NIELS BOHR Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
NIELS BOHR Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question
NIELS BOHR Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourse...
JOHN H. PATTERSON Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
BIBLE Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as y...
THOMAS A KEMPIS

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MARTIN JACQUES The world is fortunate - for the time being, at least - that it has an American president in Obama w...
MARTIN JACQUES The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judg...
JACQUES VERGES Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people w...
JACQUES LACAN My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist...
JACQUES DELORS I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles.
BRIAN JACQUES I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.
JACQUES DERRIDA It's the first time I've seen any of my work done like this,
BRIAN JACQUES I suppose there's a child inside me who wants to get out, ... A little baldy child with a beard. Ha!
BRIAN JACQUES I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning, ... Who ever thought I'd be a children's author --...
BRIAN JACQUES Ah, 'tis a good strong yarn, about the sea, and all the legends that surround it,
BRIAN JACQUES I use animals native to Great Britain, ... The animals have human traits, like the mole is a tiny, f...
BRIAN JACQUES Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human, ... They know what a 'dirty rat' is.
BRIAN JACQUES Any time I go into anything like this, I make sure, before I ever put pen to paper, that I've got th...
BRIAN JACQUES Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious ins...
JACQUES LACAN I admired Margaret Thatcher - while abhorring much of what she offered - because she was so clearly ...
MARTIN JACQUES The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the do...
JACQUES DERRIDA We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their...
JACQUES MARITAIN The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in th...
JACQUES ELLUL Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation God is always present, always available. At...
JACQUES ELLUL The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
JACQUES CHIRAC The finest amusements are the most pointless ones.
JACQUES CHARDONNE I come from a tradition of screenwriting -- with a co-writer -- where everything is challenged, wher...
JACQUES AUDIARD It wouldn't be unthinkable that he would chase her out with a baseball bat,
JACQUES AUDIARD The Beat That My Heart Skipped,
JACQUES AUDIARD He was more interested in having a discussion on Proust than on Welles,
JACQUES AUDIARD I am putting an artist within the reach of wallets in all legality, and I am extending his fame.
JACQUES ATTALI François Mitterrand was the last king of France. France today is no longer a truly i...
JACQUES ATTALI It is a modest budget. We wish to start with a small amount.
JACQUES ATTALI The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be ...
JACQUES LACAN As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along ...
JACQUES LACAN Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my...
JACQUES DERRIDA For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence...
JACQUES ELLUL The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russ...
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