38 quotes found
Writer · English
English writer
“The more you can dream, the more you can do.”
“Don't make waves, move smoothly without disturbing things.”
“If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you?”
“One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.”
“Learn to accept your mistakes. Don't be a perfectionist about everything.”
“Act impeccably! Perform every act as if it were the only thing in the world that mattered.”
“Escapism sold books, to be sure, but not nearly as many as were sold by exposing Americas flaws and making the average American reader (and book club member) look closely at his or her most cherish...”
“Lee was a born pedagogue, never happier than when his children were learning to do something the right way. It is a testament to Lee's affection and patience that his children did not rebel. In fac...”
“Cats don't think they're owned by anybody. Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they're free. Always. That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them.”
“Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.”
“This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.”
“The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt ...”
“When I was a child in England before the war, Christmas pudding always contained at least one shiny new sixpence, and it was considered a sign of great good luck for the new year to find one in you...”
“Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.”
“Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.”
“Frost was no match for Nixon - far from being an intrepid and challenging interviewer, he was a pushover for the great and the famous, always deeply impressed with the fact that here he was, David ...”
“The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or not. It's not that they need the money, of course; it's a question of ego, like catching the bigge...”
“Of course the rich and famous tend to have more going on in their lives than ordinary people, but they aren't always willing to tell the interesting bits.”
“Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of all of them - he and Peter Fleming had become ...”
“Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of 'Civus romanus sum' set them apart from barbarians and slaves, and it was true up to a point, but Roman citizens lived in a society that accepted pain...”
“While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.”
“I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to educate myself: it is an exploration into the unknown - 'a journey without maps,' to borrow Graham G...”
“I once attended a birthday party where Danny Kaye dropped in to entertain the birthday boy and his guests I was sometimes taken for lunch on Saturdays by my father to The Brown Derby and my favorit...”
“Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.”
“Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism.”
