#advice

The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all. ↗

— Protagoras

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Doubt gets a bad rap. Doubting doesn't mean you've stopped believing, but that you've started thinking. Sheep doubt nothing. Chances are you'll get further in life by questioning things than by living like something that ends up as dinner and a sweater. ↗

— Amy Alkon

#amy-alkon #rude-people #life

The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#live-in-the-moment #past

The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#art #inspiration #writing #art

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

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Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#dark #elves #fantasy #heart #life

Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once. ↗

— Horace Smith

#advice #events #forget #forgive #good

Innovation takes practice more than talent. ↗

— Debra Kaye

#creative-thinking #inspirational-attitude #attitude

I have a hardcore attitude: a “self-published, ghost-written book” is wrong because the concept behind self publishing is that you have knowledge or emotions that you want to express. When people read a book—particularly a self-published one—they have the right to expect that it’s the person’s writing, not cleaned-up dictation or slapping a name on a book that someone else wrote. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#writing #writing-advice #writing-process #attitude

The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#writing #writing-advice #beauty