#ink

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost. ↗

— Lloyd C. Douglas

#damages #fear #ghost #harbors #him

I think my parents were high when they named me. ↗

— Jolene Blalock

#i #i think #me #named #parents

Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55. ↗

— Charles Keating

#born #i #i think #i was born #think

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#aspirations #began #book #child #done

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano. ↗

— Debbie Gibson

#any #going #i #i think #kid

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#answering #attach #attached #attitude #course

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#attitude #basically #been #course #failed

I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#chance #deliver #given #i #i think

I think very early on in life we all learn what we're good at and what we're not good at, and we stay where it's safe. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#good #i #i think #learn #life

Spock was the sex symbol. A lot of people think it was Kirk. But, no, it was really Spock. ↗

— Jolene Blalock

#lot #people #really #sex #sex symbol