But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.
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Eric Wright
A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.
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Will Self
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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Flannery OConnor
Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions...
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Edith Sitwell
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, orperhaps of subconsciousness– I wouldn't know. But I amsure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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Aaron Copland
More Quotes By Chuck Bridges
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Disbelief in GOD is like living in the city and denying the people who have been to the country and tell you about it.
That Science thing "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" Well this is not true if you hit someone much bigger then you.
If all of life were an illusion then the instruments science would use to measure reality could not be depended upon.
I now understand why the people chased Frankenstein up the mountain with torches. It was not because he was ugly but because they were. :)
