Quotes January 16, 2021

I wouldn’t ask anyone to do anything I wouldn’t do myself.
Indra Nooyi,
business executive
 
 
 
 
The most beautiful part of your body is where it’s headed.
If we are lucky, the end of the sentence is where we might begin.
Ocean Vuong,
poet, writer
 
 
 
 
Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
Melinda Gates,
philanthropist, advocate for women and girls
 
 
 
 
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Ray Kroc,
businessman
 
 
 
 
When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn’t writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.
Ken Kesey
 
 
 
 
The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.
Raymond Chandler
 
 
 
 
In the end, I am quite normal. I don’t have odd habits. I don’t dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don’t talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer’s block, all those things that we hear about writers. I don’t have any of those problems, but I do have problems just like any other person doing any other type of work. Sometimes things do not come out as I want them to, or they don’t come out at all. When things do not come out as well as I would have liked, I have to resign myself to accepting them as they are.
José Saramago
 
 
 
 
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have ‘essential’ and ‘long overdue’ meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance.
J.K. Rowling
 
 
 
 
Be thankful for your failures. They reveal the winning strategies.
James Clear
 
 
 
 
If plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters — 204 if you’re in Japan.
Claire Cook
 
 
 
 
Don’t think of introversion as something that needs to be cured… Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to.
Susan Cain
 
 
 
 
To be passive is to let others decide for you. To be aggressive is to decide for others. To be assertive is to decide for yourself. And to trust that there is enough, that you are enough.
Edith Eva Eger
 
 
 
 
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Steve Jobs
 
 
 
 
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire
 
 
 
 
When you choose to forgive those who have hurt you, you take away their power.
Unknown