#bet

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#apt #beautiful #better #brain #exact

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#between #cousins #deterioration #determination #detest

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#better #course #day #days #easier

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#better #better place #beyond #day #every

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#arab world #between #creating #cultural #habits

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson. ↗

— Roger Craig

#became #better #better person #conquered #fear

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. ↗

— Edgard Varese

#illogical #musical #our #poor

My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#cooking #eat #gave #how #i

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week. ↗

— Cindy Crawford

#better #better person #days #feel #get

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life. ↗

— Michael Crawford

#better #career #failure #learn #life