I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.


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Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appro...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one tha...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you wi...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human l...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, withou...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to b...
NATHANIEL RATELIFF
The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or ev...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approve...
NATHANIEL COTTON
Most of us are capable of more than we believe.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
To do nothing is the way to be nothing.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek t...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of ...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nea...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibil...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a ki...
NATHANIEL RATELIFF
Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute.
NATHANIEL EMMONS
Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, with...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop ...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Life is made up of marble and mud.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you w...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon But small, appear most long and terrible.
NATHANIEL LEE
While foulest fiends shun thy society.
NATHANIEL LEE
Then he will talk--good gods, how he will talk!
NATHANIEL LEE
Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the consciou...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the bo...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a fr...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind a...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resis...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly n...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
To-morrow, didst thou say? Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow! Go to--I will not hear it...
NATHANIEL COTTON
I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
War between Old England and the Bostonians is expected according to all reports we can hear. Various...
NATHANIEL SMITH
How nearly is natural affection connected with the love of God (for if we love not our Brother whom ...
NATHANIEL SMITH
What idea can be formed from the description of these people or what credit can be given to their st...
NATHANIEL SMITH
May the Lord our God prepare us for every event then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
NATHANIEL SMITH
To the best of my knowledge, I do not intend to applaud too much, nor degrade the Country I am in, I...
NATHANIEL SMITH
The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratif...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
The scientist who lives laborious days in the disinterested pursuit of truth, the artist who will st...
NATHANIEL MICKLEM
This concern for the rights and liberties and welfare of the backward peoples is rooted in the Chris...
NATHANIEL MICKLEM
The idea of endless and limitless progress and development seems unsatisfying both philosophically a...
NATHANIEL MICKLEM