I don't have to be proud of it. I only have to do it well. — Thomas Hudson

Lie life through its fullest

I even read aloud the part of the novel that I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get and much more dangerous for him as a writer than glacier skiing unroped before the full winter snowfall has set over the crevices.

I may not be as strong as I think,' the old man said, 'But I know many tricks and I have resolution.

We must all be cut out for what we do, he thought. However you make your living is where your talent lies.

Inaccrochable - A picture a painter paints and then he cannot hang it when he has a show and nobody will buy it because they cannot hang it either. -said by Gertrude Stein

A writer] should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, they will succeed.

We can't do everything at once, but, by God, we can do something at once!

See, the 'small stuff' is what makes up the larger picture of our lives. Many people are like you, young man. But their perspective is distorted. They ignore 'small stuff,' claiming to have an eye on the bigger picture, never understanding that the bigger picture is composed of nothing more than-are you ready?- 'small stuff'.

The primary reason we do too much is that we have never taken the time to discover that portion of what we do that makes the biggest difference.

It's deceiving but true that we rarely see any immediate consequences for neglecting a single installment of time in any arena of life. But if neglect becomes your pattern, you will eventually bump up against our third principle: 3. Neglect has a cumulative effect.

The first thing that sometimes keeps next generation leaders from playing to their strengths is that the idea of being a balanced or well-rounded leader looks good on paper and sounds compelling coming from behind a lectern, but in reality, it is an unworthy endeavor. Read the biographies of the achievers in any arena of life. You will find over and over that these were not "well-rounded" leaders. They were men and women of focus.