“Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used to heaping on yourself. Such self-bashing is never useful. If you indulge in it, your writing doesn't stand a chance. So when your mind turns on you, turn it back, stamp it down, shut it up, and keep writing.” IfsWritingMindSelfUsedTurnsEvilChanceStupidBeatsCriticizeStampsIndulgeInadequateIndulge InEpithet Author:Gail Carson Levine
“I grew up in the spoken-word community. Before everybody had a home studio, or before we could get booked for shows, open mics were the only way to be heard by other people. It really gave me a chance to develop as a performer. Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.” PeopleWayShowsHomeReadingCommunityChallengesChancePiecesHeardFrontsGrewGrew UpBeatsStudiosPerformersSpoken WordMics Author:Macklemore
“Any chance beats no chance.” HopeChanceBeats Book:Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home Source: Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home
“Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are not small that the rocket will simply run amuck among friends and foes.” IfsGivingShouldRunningChanceKnowledgeGeniusBeatsGuidanceFoeHollowRocketsChances AreExplosivesGunpowder Book:Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S Source: Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D., F.R.S