Ellen Bard > Ellen's Quotes

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

“It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test yout limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossum.”
― Anaïs Nin

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“When a man talks from the heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.”
― Ray Bradbury

“The entire history of mankind is problem solving, or science fiction swallowing ideas, digesting them, and excreting formulas for survival. You can't have one without the other. No fantasy, no reality. No studies concerning loss, no gain. No imagination, no will. No impossible dreams: No possible solutions.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen & the Art of Writing

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“*Persistence is more important than perfection. If at first you don’t succeed, it doesn’t matter as long as you always try, try again;
*Small improvements, made consistently, add up; *You cannot fail unless you quit. What most people call failures are merely unsuccessful experiments. Failures are bumps on the road as long as your story remains a work in progress;
*You can always do better with what you already have - and often, it’s much smarter to find ways to do so than to invest time and money trying something entirely new as your next one sure thing;
*And most importantly, being good doesn’t matter nearly as much as being slightly better than yesterday.”
― Johnny B. Truant