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Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#going #habit #keeps #motivation #started

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#censored #considerations #dream #dreams #economic

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned. ↗

— Henry Adams

#calling #divinity #effort #every #every man

I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#going #i #i do #long #long run

I can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?' ↗

— Rick Baker

#getting #grow #grow up #how #i

I moved out to LA, got an agent, started auditioning. I didn't know anything about how it worked. And since I was really bad, luckily, I didn't get any of those parts. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#agent #any #anything #auditioning #bad

I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery. ↗

— Gianni Agnelli

#away #big #buying #credit #dollars

Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again. ↗

— Gianni Agnelli

#america #bank #between #change #cos

I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost. ↗

— Jenny Agutter

#believe #believing #both #done #fact

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#like #myself #please #read #started