I can never judge of the same thing exactly in the same way.

I cannot judge of my work, while doing it. I must do as the artists, stand at a distance but not too far. -Blaise Pascal Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the study of Addison. -S amuel Johnson Write what you like; there is no other rule. -O. Henry With whatever talent a man may be born, the art of writing is not easily learned . -Jean Jacques Rousseau If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has l ived your life. -Jos Saramago A writer is committed to trying to make sense of life. It's a search. So there i s that commitment first of all: the commitment to the honesty and determination to go as deeply in to things as possible, and to dredge up what little bit of tr uth you with your talent can then express. -Nadine Gordimer The best way to become a skilled writer is to write; and if there is a better wa y to learn than by doing, the world has not yet discovered it. -Elbert Hubbard If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the mo re they are condensed the deeper they burn. -Southey When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. -Steele There are two things essential to a technical treatise: the first is to define t he subject; the second (I mean second in order, as it is by much the first in importance) to point out how and by what methods we may become masters of it ourselves. -Longinus I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but ou r reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his word s enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves. -John Updike All sorrows can be borne, if you put them into a story. -Isak Dinesen But a writer may err by making his sentences too uniformly compact and periodic, and an occasional loose sentence prevents the style from becoming too formal an d gives the reader a certain relief. -William Strunk Jr. Go it while you're young. -Abraham Lincoln Rhetoric is the use of words to change the world. -Michael Drout, A Way with W ords, The Art of Rhetoric. We are today a wired nation, eager and accustomed to instant information where v isions of both success and setback in all areas of American life are available i mmediately online. -Patricia Grace Smith, Rockets Are Dangerous, Aware of the H azards, Associate Administrator, Office of Commercial Space Transportation, Fede ral Aviation Administration. I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life acrossnot to j ust depict lifeor criticize itbut to actually make it alive. -Ernest Hemingway To determine whether or not you have the ingredients to be charismatic, answer t he following questions: What are your real feelings about who you are? What do y ou believe in? Do you have goals or a mission in life? Do you project optimism? Do others turn to you for leadership? Noncharismatic people spend their lives au ditioning for others and hoping they'll be accepted. Charismatic people don't do ubt their ability to add value to a situation, so they move forward with their m ission. -Roger Ailes, You Are the Message. There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know until he takes up a pen to write. -William Makepeace Thackeray When you find a deal is when you're looking for one. -Dave Ramsey, The Dave Ram sey Show, July 17, 2007. After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser. -Benjamin Franklin True hope is based on the energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and h as always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs, and h ow slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. -Von Knebel Unfortunately, people's memories are very uneven. We tend to remember our triump hs and forget our failures. -Jack Brennan, Straight Talk on Investing.

Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, i s never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything. -Whipple Living below your means is the ultimate financial strategy. -Jack Brennan, Stra ight Talk on Investing. Living below your means is tough in a materialistic culture where advertisements constantly play with our egos and television provides endless images of the goo d life. -Jack Brennan, Straight Talk on Investing. History teaches everything, even the future. -Lamartine Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a chi ld. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always i n the infancy of knowledge. -Cicero We should never despair. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new e xertions. -George Washington How pitiful is the ambition which desolates the world with fire and sword for th e purpose of conquest and fame, compared to making our neighbors and fellowmen h appy! -George Washington Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody; and to that person whatever he say s has an enhanced value. -Ralph Waldo Emerson I often tell my clients they should do at least 30 percent of all their reading outside their own field. This will give them perspective and knowledge that will make them more interesting. -Roger Ailes, You Are the Message. Advertising: Negative information has a way of spreading a lot faster than positive informati on. -Mark Joyner, The Irresistible Offer. Persistent marketing is good marketing. -Mark Joyner, The Irresistible Offer. Words, be they spread through your mouth, email or print, are the most efficient , portable and speedy delivery mechanism of all. -Mark Joyner, The Irresistible Offer. The problem is that we're so tuned in to our own radio station so much that some times we're totally out of sync with even what those we love want in life. -Mark Joyner, The Irresistible Offer. It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brou ght into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care littl e for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. -Nathaniel Hawthorne, Introduction: The Custom-House.