#yourself

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to "carry it off." ↗

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Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

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The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. ↗

— Jane Wagner

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To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway. ↗

— George Saunders

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Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

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I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference. ↗

— John Sayles

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Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

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Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself. ↗

— Paul Schrader

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Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself. ↗