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 Frank A. Clark
A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian-to help them is.
It's hard to detect good luck-it looks so much like something you've earned.
