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    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    ― Anton Chekhov
    tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing
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    Allen Ginsberg
    “To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.”
    ― Allen Ginsberg
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    Stephen King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    Anne Hamilton
    “Take a good long look at The Lord’s Prayer. It’s all ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’. There is no ‘me’, ‘I’ or ‘mine’ anywhere.”
    ― Anne Hamilton, God's Poetry: The Identity and Destiny Encoded In Your Name
    tags: corporateness, individuality, our-father, the-lord-s-prayer, togetherness, unity
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    Anne Hamilton
    “Throughout the ancient world, naming was a sacred act. It was the word by which a child was called into his calling. It was the voice of destiny, summoning the child into his future with all its glorious promise.”
    ― Anne Hamilton, God's Panoply: The Armour of God and the Kiss of Heaven
    tags: destiny, identity, name, naming, purpose-in-life
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    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
    ― Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: books, fire, star, universe
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    T.S. Eliot
    “To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
    ― T.S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.
    Nevertheless, say "yes" to life; A Psychologist Experiences the Concentration Camp”
    ― Viktor Frankl
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    Ruth Bonetti
    “Strive for excellence, rather than perfection, and the audience may so enjoy your beautiful, expressive tone that they will readily forgive a few stray notes.”
    ― Ruth Bonetti, Confident Music Performance
    tags: music, performance
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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
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    Michelle Dennis Evans
    “What if the very reason you were created was to be creative?”
    ― Michelle Dennis Evans
    tags: created, creativity, inspired
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    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    Mark Twain
    “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, newspapers
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    Anne Hamilton
    “Shadow is Light’s child. It is nothing without the Light, and nothing if it falls into Darkness.”
    ― Anne Hamilton, Many-Coloured Realm
    tags: darkness, light, shadow
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    Emilie Richards
    “It's not who you come from, but who's standing right beside you, that counts most.”
    ― Emilie Richards
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    Shania Twain
    “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”
    ― Shania Twain, From This Moment On
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    Ruth Bonetti
    “A few mistakes do not a fiasco make. Professionals throw them off casually but file them away to reinvent as an endearing anecdote in later presentations. Make them part of the performance! Put them behind you and keep going whatever happens.”
    ― Ruth Bonetti, Speak Out - Don't Freak Out
    tags: presentation-skills, public-speaking
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    Ludwig van Beethoven
    “If once he has got the right fingering, plays in good time, with the notes fairly correct, then only pull him up about the rendering; and when he has arrived at that stage, don’t let him stop for the sake of small faults, but point them out to him when he has played the piece through. . . I have always adopted this plan; it soon forms musicians which, after all, is one of the first aims of art and it gives less trouble both to master and pupil.”
    ― Ludwig van Beethoven
    tags: mistakes, mistakes-in-practice, music-teaching, teaching
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    Hans Christian Andersen
    “Where words fail, music speaks.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen
    tags: music, power-of-music
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    “Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been a statue set up in honour of a critic.”
    ― Jean Sibelius
    tags: criticism, music
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    Mother Teresa
    “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa
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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri
    tags: authors, books, embarrassing-moments, funny, funny-but-true, funny-writing-quotes, humble, humility, humor, humour, learning, learning-from-mistakes, sad-but-true, spell-check, spelling, twitter-quotes, typos, typos-can-be, typos-can-be-phenominal, wisdom, writer-quotes, writers, writing
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    Viv Albertine
    “I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn't exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It's beautiful and doomed.”
    ― Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
    tags: doomed, forever, words
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    D.J. Stutley
    “The Piper's playing again, and there's a full orchestra.'

    There was a long silence as Andrew deciphered the cryptic statement. 'A FULL orchestra?”
    ― D.J. Stutley
    tags: action, code, sas, suspense
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    Desmond Tutu
    “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
    ― Desmond Tutu
    tags: goodness, incrementalism, kindness
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    H.G. Wells
    “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
    ― H.G. Wells
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Douglas Adams
    “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humour
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