Brian Christian Quotes
To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.
Quotes to Explore
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.
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It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.
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I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.
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When you are allowed to study different disciplines, you redefine your idea of success. You learn to appreciate multiple disciplines simultaneously and you learn that there is no one formula to anything.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
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Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.
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L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
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I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.
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I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.
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Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.
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For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
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I think, for every phase of your life, you take something out of it, you learn from it, you grow from it. You just have to try to take what you can from it and then move on to the next phase of your life to be better.
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People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
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I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
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I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
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After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.
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It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.
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The more you learn, the more you need to learn. That's what life is.
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I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it.
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I'm learning to be braver with colorful clothes, even if they're a little wild.
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I always believe when you got something to say, that's when you put something out.
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To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.
