Quotes Tagged "right"

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end, but a unique event in itself.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.

In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line. ... From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence, for himself alone ... each of us can bring to fruition these innate, God-given abilities.

All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.

The same man cannot be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

Any talent that we are born with eventually surfaces as a need.

The best career advice given to the young ... is "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."

Skills vary with the man. We must... strive by that which is born in us.

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

We don't see many fat men walking on stilts.

I was playing it like Willie Wilson, but I forgot that I'm in Clint Hurdle's body.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.

To every man according to his ability.