#si

Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in. ↗

— Raphael Saadiq

#frustrations #going #profession #you

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anything #away #because #began #benefits

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#capacity #empathize #enables #envision #experiences

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#humans #knack #precisely #them #things

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#day #few #hard #i #just

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#backgrounds #been #both #came #college

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#far #give #given #i #i think

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#even #good #good sign #hear #hearing

I always felt an outsider. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#felt #i #i always #outsider

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#dark side #i #side #sometimes #tendency