It's how I'm wired. If I'm not the best at something, it ticks me off, and I want to work harder to be the best. It's also the way I was raised.


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I love George R.R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones' series.
RAE CARSON
When you write about faith, people will be upset with you no matter what. I've heard from reader...
RAE CARSON
The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
RAE CARSON
I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's eas...
RAE CARSON
The message was always, 'It's good to be pretty, but don't look like you're trying t...
RAE CARSON
I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when i...
RAE CARSON
My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, t...
RAE CARSON
I dreamed about this as a kid, that I would write - and people would read - a whole series of books....
RAE CARSON
Competing in pageants made me hyper-aware of the unfair expectations society places on women in term...
RAE CARSON
No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee...
BEN CARSON
Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. An...
BEN CARSON
There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get a...
BEN CARSON
Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken plac...
JOHNNY CARSON
We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for...
BEN CARSON
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
JOHNNY CARSON
We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the m...
BEN CARSON
While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.
CARSON MCCULLERS
Economics is not brain surgery.
BEN CARSON
If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on educa...
BEN CARSON
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished...
CARSON MCCULLERS
One of my co-workers at Ralph Lauren heard about the show, and when she got back to the office, said...
CARSON KRESSLEY
It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little h...
RACHEL CARSON
Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwis...
RACHEL CARSON
As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of l...
RACHEL CARSON
In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorro...
CARSON MCCULLERS
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, t...
RACHEL CARSON
Do your best and let God do the rest.
BEN CARSON
Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between rea...
ANNE CARSON
Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
BEN CARSON
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us th...
RACHEL CARSON
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
JOHNNY CARSON
The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
JOHNNY CARSON
The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biol...
RACHEL CARSON
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hun...
CARSON MCCULLERS
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
JOHNNY CARSON
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.
RACHEL CARSON
My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.
JOHNNY CARSON
For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
JOHNNY CARSON
One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons ...
RACHEL CARSON
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national ...
CARSON MCCULLERS
No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The peop...
RACHEL CARSON
Through all these new, imaginative, and creative approaches to the problem of sharing our earth with...
RACHEL CARSON
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as ...
RACHEL CARSON
There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not kn...
RACHEL CARSON
New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.
JOHNNY CARSON
We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are...
RACHEL CARSON
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one a...
RACHEL CARSON