#yours

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#failure #fool #make #takes #unimportant

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you. ↗

— Eric Church

#around #come #ideas #just #key

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#behavior #better #direction #drift #hang

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#get #jail #know #sentence #want

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#appear #before #caring #concern #cure

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#inconsistent #manner #perform #see #way

It is a juggling act and I have been in it for 12 years now, which is about 11 years longer than I thought I would be, and then the priority there is thinking how can I stay somewhat irrelevant so that you can continue to survive and can continue to work and put yourself in a position to get to do the work you are truly passionate about. ↗

— Edward Burns

#act #been #continue #get #how

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#agents #allow #being #discouraged #either

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#fool #great #great pleasure #him #himself

The endorsement process is an evolution. What you try to do is you endorse someone that you believe in and their ideas and their solutions align with yours. ↗

— Herman Cain

#believe #endorse #endorsement #evolution #ideas