Zig Ziglar Quotes
Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.
Quotes to Explore
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
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To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.
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Do not deprive someone of his livelihood. This is a sinful tendency.
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My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland.
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Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.
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Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.
