Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent.
I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.
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Sarah Kay
Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.
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Marvin J. Ashton
Do your best and let God do the rest.
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Ben Carson
Some of my best ideas come from when I'm sitting on the toilet.
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Anthony T Hincks
I tried your best and it didn't work, so now I'm going to try my best and I'm sure that I'll succeed!
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Anthony T. Hincks
More Quotes By Will Self
A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.
Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine....
Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work...
You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, no matter how successful and publicly lauded you become. It is intrinsic to...
A funny yet interesting read, Will Self knowa his stuff and must do a lot of deep research.
