“Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
“Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.”
The Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2009, "Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704576204574529703577274572.html by John Jurgensen <!--accessed: November 17, 2009--> <br class="br">Variant: I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing. <br class="br">Context: I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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“Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”
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