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“You do not attain success when you associate with those in high positions, It comes when you accept yourself and realize that only you can take yourself to where your heart truly lies.”

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“Particularity leads to peculiarity and then to pathological behavior. The three Ps. It is very insidious. You would eventually end up in a box. If you try to control your environment, it will control you. And everyone else around you will always have to be making adjustments to your maddening idiosyncracies...You are beginning to enslave yourself with your fussiness.”

Philosophy Particularity

Author:Susan Trott

“Every great athlete, artist and aspiring being has a great team to help them flourish and succeed - personally and professionally. Even the so-called 'solo star' has a strong supporting cast helping them shine, thrive and take flight.”

“Fame comes and goes; knowledge comes and stays. But none of them safeguard us against danger; it’s only the GRACE of God that keeps us in safety!”

Source: Daily Drive 365

“Real men do not work for fame. That is what I think. Popularity is just a piece of crap. I prefer a private life.”

Life Real Fame Writer Popularity

Book:Bits of Heaven

Source: Bits of Heaven

“Inscriptions here of various Names I view'd, The greater part by hostile time subdu'd; Yet wide was spread their fame in ages past, And Poets once had promis'd they should last.”

Time Poet Fame Irony Hubris Inscription

Book:The Temple of Fame

Source: The Temple of Fame

“Brevity Is Best: Nicknamed "Silent Cal," President Calvin Coolidge was once challenged by a reporter, saying, "I bet someone that I could get more than two words out of you." Coolidge responded, "You lose." The notion of crafting six word memoirs really took off after Smith Magazine shared this poignant one written by Ernest Hemingway: "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn." Pithiness Pays Off For Other Reasons: When required to be brief, for example, we gain clarity about what we really mean -- or have to offer. As Mark Twain once wrote, in a slower-paced time, "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

Fame Brevity Stand Out Pithiness

Book:Mutuality Matters How You Can Create More Opportunity, Adventure & Friendship With Others

Source: Mutuality Matters How You Can Create More Opportunity, Adventure & Friendship With Others

“Whether people see you as a shadow or as an invisible or stupid sort of thing, a time will come when that Image of yours will never be seen by commoners.”

Source: The Infinity Sign

“His being famous didn’t give him a right to use her and treat her like dirt.”

Fame Celebrities Fame And Attitude

Book:Diamonds Are Forever

Source: Diamonds Are Forever

“Self Importance is the worst sin a person can get into”

Attention Pride Fame Ego Egoism

Author:Rajesh Nanoo

“The more I see of the ‘hounoured, famed, and great,’ the more I see of the littleness, the unsatisfactoriness of all created good; and that no earthly pleasure can fill up the wants of the immortal principle within.”

Fame Disappointment Immortality Dissatisfaction Worldy Pleasure

Book:Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist

Source: Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist

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