Quotes by Dorothea Brande - Page 1

Old habits are strong and jealous.
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Jealous
Habit
Old Habits
Strong
Habits
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Act as if it were impossible to fail.
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Inspirational
Positive
Failure
Hard Work
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Act as though it is impossible to fail.
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Success
Failing
Impossible
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Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.
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Arms
Mind
Writing
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A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.
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Half
Problem
Clearly
Solved
Stated
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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.
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Unseen
Will
Come
Act
Aid
Boldly
Forces
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Act boldly and unforeseen forces will come to your aid.
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Aids
Force
Unforeseen
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A problem is often half-solved when it is clearly stated.
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Half
Problem
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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.
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Impossible
Act
Fail
Guarantee
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Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
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Open Mind
Open
Frontier
Mind Will Always
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The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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Flew
Impossibility
Smoke
Wright Brothers
Brothers
Screen
The Wright Brothers
Wright
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Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.
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Muscles
Solitude
Writing
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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.
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Ideas
Long
New Ideas
Original Ideas
Highs
Reach
Sales
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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
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Filled
Mind
Man
Container
Rather
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The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
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Differences
People
Problem
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The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.
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Games
Greek
Religious
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Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.
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Moral
Stills
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Most writers flourish greatly on a simple, healthy routine with occasional time off for gaiety.
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Healthy
Routine
Simple
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it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.
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Bondage
Done
Humdrum
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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
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Growing
Novelists
Seeds
Self
Self Destruction
Unhappiness
Allowed
Bear
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By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
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Inspirational
Hope
Imagination
Moment Your Day
Begin
Successfully
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The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.
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Children
Genius
World
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If you can discover what you like, if you can discover what you truly believe about most of the major matters of life, you will be able to write a story which is honest and original and unique.
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Believe
Unique
Writing
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In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph.
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Women
Feelings
Triumph
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Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.
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Mind
Philosophy
Prejudice
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The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now the other.
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Able
Different
Facets
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The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.
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Party
Prejudice
Teaching
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All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.
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Failure
Break
Frustration
Impossible
Inertia
Turns
Act
Fail
Formula
Spell
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All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.
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Inspirational
Frustration
Writing
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Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover, and you will have trouble in luring it out again to observe and weave tales and find words for all the thousand shades of feeling that go to make up a story.
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Running
Feelings
Rejection
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In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to do, or doing well what we have undertaken as our personal contribution to the world's work, at least by way of an earnestly followed avocation, there will be a core of unhappiness in our lives which will be more and more difficult to ignore as the years pass.
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Running
Differences
Years
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Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two.
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Artist
Character
Two
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