It must be nice, Queenie thought, to be one thing or another, to know where you belonged.
The more you can dream, the more you can do.
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you’re playing by somebody else’s rules, while quietly playing by your own.
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.
Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. By concentrating our efforts upon a few major goals, our efficiency soars, our projects are completed we are going somewhere.
What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.
Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.
We sell books, other people sell shoes. What’s the difference? Publishing isn’t the highest art.
The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you cannot look at it again, it is time to sit down and revise it some more.
Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant’s into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don’t just think it – ink it!