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“It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.”

Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

“One thing I'd do was put a great writer's book beside the typewriter and... type out a beautiful and moving paragraph... and see those sentences rising up... and... think, 'Someday maybe I can write like that....' It was like a dream of possibilities for my own self. And maybe I began to know that there was no other way for the sentence... to... arouse the same feeling. The someone writing whose words were rising from the typewriter became like a mentor for me.... You shouldn't do it more than a few times because you must get on with your own work.”

Thinking Knows Way Writing I Can Book Self Feelings Dream Beautiful Moving My Own One Thing Possibility Type Sentences Rising Someday Mentor Paragraph Typewriters Great Writers Rising Up

Author:Gina Berriault

“God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get into circumstances which were not chosen by God, and suddenly we find we have been calculating without God; He has not entered in as a living factor. The one thing that keeps us from the possibility of worrying is bringing God in as the greatest factor in all our calculations.”

Way Has Beens Seems Worry One Thing Possibility Circumstances Accounts Chosen Factors Upset Delightful Calculations Without God Calculating Chosen By God

Book:My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

“For, above all, I hold a notion of possibility and necessity according to which there are some things that are possible, but yet not necessary, and which do not really exist. From this it follows that a reason that always forces a free mind to choose one thing over another (whether that reason derives from the perfection of a thing, as it does in God, or from our imperfection) does not eliminate our freedom.”

Mind Doe Reason Force One Thing Possibility Perfection Notion Imperfection

Book:Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

Source: Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

“One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest of mankind, sinners; for they, like many others, are liable to confuse the generic term "sinner" with the specific term "criminal." Most of us are so accustomed to admit that we have fallen short of grace and are "miserable offenders," in view of our possibilities and opportunities, that we do not resent being called "sinners"; but not so with our congregation.”

“My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land.”

Three Walks One Thing Land Movement Possibility Republican Thousand Independence Convinced Miles Native Ireland Thousand Miles Native Land

Author:James Stephens

“Political correctness and so many of the political fashions of the day...could only be perpetrated in adolescent minds: minds, that is, that are trained to search out one thing and one thing only...Only an adolescent would find it worthwhile to devote his or her attention chiefly to the hunting of offenses, the possibility of slights, real and imagined.”

Mind Real Political Attention One Thing Fashion Possibility Worthwhile Hunting Offense Political Correctness Correctness

Author:Joseph Epstein