#yourself

Everybody saying you can't do this, you can't do that. I don't know why. Guess if you listen to it, you can convince yourself of it. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#everybody #guess #i #know #listen

A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#ask #beat #because #best #better

Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself. ↗

— Dyan Cannon

#being #born #concept #means #new

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#cinema #football #you #yourself

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right. ↗

— Steve Carlton

#day #getting #off #paper #pick

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. ↗

— Angela Carter

#book #bring #experience #history #like

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

#being yourself #own #really #rejoice #your

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#preserve #vanity #will #you #yourself

Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#engaged #favors #find #jam #louis

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