Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
Variant: Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Pebble in the Sky, chapter 4 “The Royal Road”, p. 33
Pebble in the Sky (1950)
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
Variant: Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
“You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)
Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist
Writers at Work interview (1963)
Context: A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself — or at least, you show yourself as someone who could not afford to show himself, and so created something to hide behind... You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.
Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000) Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and freq…
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“Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.”
Anna Wintour (1949) English editor-in-chief of American Vogue
“But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.”
Adeline Yen Mah (1937) Author and physician
Source: Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter