Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way.
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Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way.
Live a vital life. If you live well, you will earn well. If you live well, it will show in your face; it will show in the texture of your voice. There will be something unique and magical about you if you live well. It will infuse not only your personal life but also your business life. And it will give you a vitality nothing else can give.
Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
For me right now I think being the world number one is a bigger deal than being the world champion because I think it shows better who plays the best chess. That sounds self-serving but I think it's also right.
The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.
What I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.
Band-Aids don't fix bullet holes. You say sorry just for show. You live like that, you live with ghosts.
The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch the same stage that Gilda Radner had walked on. It was sacred ground.
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
I used to get bullied by the popular girls at school. Today, I am the popular girl, and the bullies come to my shows.
Don't show up to prove. Show up to improve.
Gratitude is something you show in relation to others.
Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over & over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.
Bravery shows up in everyday life when people have the courage to live their truth, their vision and their dreams.
Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention.
We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals
A Leader is one who ventures and takes the risks of going out ahead to show the way and whom others follow, voluntarily, because they are persuaded that the leader's path is the right one-for them, probably better than they could devise for themselves.
We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating - lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds.
I know it's easier to portray a world filled with cynicism and anger, where problems are solved with violence...It's an easy out. What's a whole lot tougher is to offer alternatives, to present other ways conflicts can be resolved, and to show you can have a positive impact on your world. To do that, you have to put yourself out on a limb, take chances, and run the risk of being called a do-gooder.
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