#yourself

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else. ↗

— Iris Chang

#duty #else #first #please #towards

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#driving #evidence #excel #faith #getting

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#especially #everybody #hardest #the hardest thing #thing

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. ↗

— Pierre Charron

#cheated #cunning #easiest #easiest way #more

By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#lost #person #something #sweet #very

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#belief #between #biology #body #free

When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer. ↗

— Joel Coen

#bit #different #down #employer #expectations

You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself. ↗

— Alan Cohen

#only #see #someone #you #yourself

Even if someone is already in your market space, ask yourself whether you can approach it from a different angle and thereby secure your own customer base. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#angle #approach #ask #base #customer

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#call #certain #dangerous #description #give