“The story is always better than your ability to write it.”
Robin McKinley (1952) American fantasy writer
Source: Small Favor
“The story is always better than your ability to write it.”
Robin McKinley (1952) American fantasy writer
Javier Marías book Tu rostro mañana
Tenía capacidad para sorprender, como todos los imbéciles mayúsculos, y por supuesto para irritar de nuevo en un solo segundo.
Source: Tu rostro mañana, 2. Baile y sueño [Your Face Tomorrow, Vol. 2: Dance and Dream] (2004), p. 213
“Son, son, I admire your sincerity. Always be sincere - whether you mean it or not.”
Michael Flanders (1922–1975) English writer and performer
The Reluctant Cannibal
“We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Nous aimons toujours ceux qui nous admirent; et nous n'aimons pas toujours ceux que nous admirons.
Maxim 294.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“It is not about your ability to read, it is about your ability to learn.”
Christian Canlubo (2002) Filipino Internet Entrepreneur
Source: Christian Canlubo https://en.everybodywiki.com/Christian_Canlubo| Christian Canlubo profile on EverybodyWiki<br><br> Christian Canlubo https://en.everybodywiki.com/Christian_Canlubo response to a one person question that says he doesn't learn even he reads a multiple pages of a book in an event in the Philippines.
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Letter to Lord Holland (24 September 1813) on Napoleon, quoted in E. A. Smith, Lord Grey. 1764-1845 (Alan Sutton, 1996), p. 176.
1810s
“Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.”
David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author
Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity