Escofet 1886 Quotes & Sayings

If it is true that strength is the child of effort and pain, then most of us will have the opportunity to learn strength ... Effort is standing up to the storm. Pain comes from enduring the worst the storm can throw at us. But then so does strength. — Joseph M. Marshall III

I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners. — Samuel Johnson

I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity — Martin Luther King Jr.

Most writers cannot afford focus groups or A/B testing, but they can ask a roommate or colleague or family member to read what they wrote and comment on it. Your reviewers needn't even be a representative sample of your intended audience. Often it's enough that they are not you. This does not mean you should implement every last suggestion they offer. Each commentator has a curse of knowledge of his own, together with hobbyhorses, blind spots, and axes to grind, and the writer cannot pander to all of them. Many academic articles contain bewildering non sequiturs and digressions that the authors stuck in at the insistence of an anonymous reviewer who had the power to reject it from the journal if they didn't comply. Good prose is never written by a committee. A writer should revise in response to a comment when it comes from more than one reader or when it makes sense to the writer herself. — Steven Pinker

People hesitate to follow their desires because they don't know how to divide their soul from their spirit. — Rihanna

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life. — Rachel Cusk

There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear. — Calvin Coolidge

Nothing comes easy, but as long as you're breathing, you're always one breath away from making your dreams a reality. Make every breath count. — Kai Greene

Freedom is our birthright. — Byron Katie

If they weren't laughing with me, okay; if they want to laugh at me it's better than nothing. — Peter Steele

Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him. — Catherine Deneuve