#pro

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ↗

— William Faulkner

#perfectionism #personality #potential #self-improvement #dreams

You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #motivational #new-thought #positive-thinking

There are no prizes for defying yourself. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

Promise me you'll never stop dreaming. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#hoping #promises-in-death #wishing #death

The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than any suggested before by science in the whole history of the human race. ↗

— Francis William Aston

#before #conclusion #fact #future #greater

His small compliments and offhand remarks formed a new scripture, and in breathless conversations and lonely, dream-drunk nights they built whole theologies from them. ↗

— Carey Wallace

#infatuation #love #projection #dreams

Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them. ↗

— Paul Lockhart

#intelligence #problems #art

Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#poetry #prosody #dreams

The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement." [Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech] ↗

— John Steinbeck

#exposure #failures #faults #improvement #writers

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#learning #learning process #like #literally #process