Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
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Natalie Goldberg
Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldn’t rely on it, because it’s not guaranteed and it’s not permanent and it’s not sufficient. So work hard, fall in love with...
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Veronica Roth
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Herman Melville
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
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Winston S. Churchill
When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others
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Robert Greene
More Quotes By J. Paul Getty
The conformist is not born. He is made. I believe the brainwashing process begins in the schools and colleges.
There is obviously something wrong with our educational system. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that there might even be something wrong with at least some of our schoolteachers. But heaven help anyone daring to express such heretical views.
In some respects, a society in which the members reach a universal level in which they are anonymous drones by choice is even more frightening than one in which they are forced to be so against their will. When human beings relinquish their individuality and...
In my own opinion, the average American's cultural shortcomings can be likened to those of the educated barbarians of ancient Rome. These were barbarians who learned to speak--and often to read and write-- Latin. They acquired Roman habits of dress and deportment. Many of them...
It has always been my contention that an individual who can be relied upon to be himself and to be honest unto himself can be relied upon in every other way.