#so

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#achieve #anywhere #expectations #genius #get

This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#behind #careful #does #draft #everybody

You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way. ↗

— William Kraft

#down #else #feel #hope #never

In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#attached #beliefs #code #conversion #institution

When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith. ↗

— Junius

#believe #confirms #determined #doctrine #faith

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#basic #brother #conversion #fact #gives

A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist. ↗

— Franklin Jones

#price #resist #something #use #you

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it. ↗

— Howard Mumford Jones

#because #criticism #easier #first #first law

When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration. ↗

— Howard Mumford Jones

#american writer #asked #celebration #died #emerson

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#because #carry #citizens #criminals #decent