Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.
Interpretation
Persistence and dedication can lead to success in achieving goals.
This quote emphasizes the power of perseverance and unwavering commitment to one's objectives. It illustrates how consistent effort, much like the Indian rain dances, ultimately brings about desired results, teaching us that giving up is not an option if we wish to achieve our goals.
In practice
In a motivational speech, you could say, 'Just like the Indian rain dances, we must keep pushing forward until we achieve our dreams.'
Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze.
My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.
I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower.
We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.
I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write to protect them. It's far too late for that. I write to give them weapons-in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.
Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.
Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.
I don't want to give anyone an edge in my mind. Every time I walk out on the court, I have to feel I'm the best so I can compete well. A lot of times, my chief rival is just me.
If I thought I could win one more soul to the Lord by walking on my head and playing the tambourine with my toes, I'd learn how!
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
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