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There's no time for regrets. You've just got to keep moving forward. Mike McCready

“Never let a good crisis go to waste''. Winston Churchill

There’s no deodorant like success. Elizabeth Taylor

“There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well . And the world must be easy.” Albert Ellis

The beauty of the imposter syndrome is that you vacillate between extreme egomania and and a complete feeling of “I’m a fraud. Oh God, they’re on to me! I’m a fraud...just try to ride the egomania when it comes and enjoy it, and then slide...

“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.” Francis Bacon

The to-read pile is more than just a physical stack of books: it's a tower of ambitions failed, hopes unrealised, good intentions unfulfilled. Worse still, it's a cold hard reminder of mortality. Already, I have intentions to read more books than...

“My words will either attract a strong mind or offend a weak one.” Anne Sexton

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. Coco Chanel

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. Desiderius Erasmus

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way. Robert Kiyosaki

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It’s fiction’s business to ask them. Richard Hughes

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, “Where have I gone wrong?” Then a voice says to me, “This is going to take more than one night.” Charles M. Schulz

Details matter. They create depth, and depth creates authenticity. Neil Blumenthal

A happy man may be a successful bishop, dog-catcher, movie actor or sausage-monger, but no happy man ever produced a first-rate piece of painting, sculpture, music or literature. George Jean Nathan