#though

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#everything #experience #explanations #hope #important

George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do. ↗

— Drew Carey

#before #carlin #comic #george #george carlin

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will? ↗

— Johnny Unitas

#always #ball #confidence #could #had

I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#bitter #cannot #coming #desired #dreadful

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#been #concerning #conditions #could #followed

But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#big #come #excited #having #her

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#end #man #noblest #though #thought

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#capital #concentrate #eggs #energies #his

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#bored #could #die #find #had

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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