Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes you a rockstar or squeezing your pimple makes you a dermatologist.
Oliver Markus
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book abou... DREW HOUSTON Your core, lying deep within you, is what makes you what you are. Some call it the soul, the Higher ... STEPHEN RICHARDS Apology makes you self responsible while excuse makes you undependable PRABAKARAN THIRUMALAI There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished... CARSON MCCULLERS You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. E. Y. HARBURG Every new self-discovery leads you to more wholeness, opens your heart, makes you humble, and a bett... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD If your presence doesn't make an impact, your absence won't make a difference. TREY SMITH It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless ... 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ALEX RJ SARANPA Nothing makes you feel more naked than someone identifying a desire you never knew you possessed. JEFF ZENTNER Positive attitude makes you to experience positive out come.Be positive & belief in self, positive t... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Positive frame of mind makes you feel inspired,expects success, it gives you strength not to give up... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Self-medicating your feelings with alcohol or other drugs doesn’t work. If you have an addictive b... TERENCE T. GORSKI People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book. BOB DYLAN Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to the garage makes you a car. DR. LAURENCE J. PETER Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn’t mean y... RANSOM RIGGS There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or mor... JIM BUTCHER Inaction only makes a task more daunting in your eye. 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MARKUS ZUSAK There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured importa... MARKUS WOLF If I had intended for 'Minecraft' to end up on consoles, I wouldn't have developed the g... MARKUS PERSSON Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children. MARKUS ZUSAK It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun. MARKUS ZUSAK They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the... MARKUS ZUSAK It makes me wonder, Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Do we spend mo... MARKUS ZUSAK We were maybe passing a little too much and not finishing the plays, but we're starting to move arou... MARKUS NASLUND 'Minecraft' is to a large degree about having unique experiences that nobody else has had. T... MARKUS PERSSON ... because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it. It's the... 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