“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.”
A New Earth (2005)
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
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Source: Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth (2008)
“You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work.”
Orange County Register, July 9, 1999
Context: You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.
“Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.”
Source: Wall and Piece (2005)
“You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.”
On devient bon écrivain comme on devient bon menuisier: en rabotant ses phrases.
As quoted in Anatole France en pantoufles by Jean-Jacques Brousson (1924); published in English as Anatole France Himself: A Boswellian Record by His Secretary, Jean-Jacques Brousson (1925), trans. John Pollock, p. 85
Variant translation: You become a good writer just as you become a good carpenter: by planing down your sentences.
Source: All the Little Live Things
nytimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/arts/music/valentina-lisitsa-jump-starts-her-career-online.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.
“It's not enough to do good. You have to be seen doing good.”
DA Arthur Branch in the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode In the Wee Small Hours.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent