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If you have to support yourself you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.

Katharine Hepburn

Genius does what it must talent does what it can.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless speed up. If you become winded slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then when you're no longer thinking ahead each footstep isn't just a means to an end but a unique event in itself.

Robert M. Pirsig

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.

In the first grade I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it but I knew the line. ... From the first day in school until the day I graduated everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.

Louise Nevelson

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

Flannery O'Connor

Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence for himself alone ... each of us can bring to fruition these innate God-given abilities.

George H. Bender

All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.

The same man cannot be skilled in everything each has his special excellence.

Euripides

Any talent that we are born with eventually surfaces as a need.

The best career advice given to the young ... is "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."

Katharine Whitehorn

Skills vary with the man. We must... strive by that which is born in us.

Pindar

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

Edgar Watson Howe

A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.

Plato

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

Phillips Brooks

We don't see many fat men walking on stilts.

I was playing it like Willie Wilson but I forgot that I'm in Clint Hurdle's body.

I searched through rebellion drugs diets mysticism religions intellectu-alism and much more only to begin to find ... that truth is basically simple-and feels good clean and right.

If you're gonna be a failure at least be one at something you enjoy.

Sylvester Stallone

That suit is best that best suits me.

The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.

Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you.

Holbrook Jackson

Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.

Hazel Henderson

Go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize after something's been done than to get permission ahead of time.

Grace Murray Hopper

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

Eva Le Gallienne

I'm not going to limit myself just because some people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is healthier in any case to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

Barbara Walters

Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another.

Agnes Whistling Elk

I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable ... I can't help it it's my personality.

Jay Chiat

For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman as a human being and even female-was when I was singing.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it with whole heart and single mind.

I look at ordinary people in their suits them with no scars and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to conventions of old fighters like me and I see the scar tissue and all them flat noses and it's beautiful. ... They talk like me like they got rocks in their throats. Beautiful!

Willie Pastrano

I have the feeling when I write poetry that I'm doing what I'm supposed to do. You don't think about whether you're going to get money or fame you just do it.

A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size or it is not the door that providence means for him.

Henry Ward Beecher

There are as many ways to live and grow as there are people. Our own ways are the only ways that should matter to us.

Follow what you love! Don't deign to ask what "they" are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests which change but what you are and what you love which will and should not change.

Georgie Anne Geyer

All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not to do something they cannot do.

Dress to please yourself.... Forget you are what you wear.... Wear what you are.

Elizabeth Hawkes

If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives to seek the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham in which our selves are determined by the will of others in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us.

Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels us through all its mazes and meanderings but leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means and so make for themselves different modes of life.

Aristotle

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.

Be not imitator freshly act thy part Through this world be thou an independent ranger Better is the faith that springeth from thy heart Than a better faith belonging to a stranger.

Persian Proverb

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

J. C. F. von Schiller

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.

Charles R. Brown

The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities.

Our concern must be to live while we're alive ... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

We are betrayed by what is false within.

George Meredith

If I trim myself to suit others I will soon whittle myself away.

Anonymous

This above all: to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

In the world to come they will not ask me "Why were you not Moses?" They will ask me "Why were you not Zusya?"

Zusya of Hanipoli

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Robertson Davies

All life is the struggle the effort to be itself.

José Ortega y Gasset

What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

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