It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.
The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.
Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.
It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.
Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?
Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.
It's so important to understand your good attendance ups your chances of graduating.
As an Old Navy style attendant, I'm all about upgrading your bare basics and presenting them to your customer as basics you need to have in your wardrobe.
What's your routine after attending a networking event or meal? If your answer is, 'I go home,' you're probably going to miss out on opportunities.
Pay attention, don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.
I would say that it's a lot easier, especially if you have a bit of an attention deficit disorder, to be on a movie because you can give it your all, and kill yourself for however many months, and then let it go.
There are a lot of weird things you might find in your basement or your attic that may have a lot of value.
Drip is your attire, the clothes you wear.
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
I don't believe newspaper reporters can substitute for a district attorney, but a newspaper has a very valid investigative role. Newspaper reports on corruption in government, racketeering and organized crime conditions can be very helpful to your communities and the whole country.
When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.
It's time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.
It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.