T.A. Uner > T.A.'s Quotes

“There are two kinds of people in this world who never learn: those who always talk, and those who never listen.”
― T.A. Uner

“The beauty of art is that it comes from the heart.”
― T.A. Uner

“When I sleep tonight I dream of what I will imagine tomorrow.”
― T.A. Uner

“The definition of a good story is one that remains with you long after you've turned that last page.”
― T.A. Uner

“Imperfection is true perfection.”
― T.A. Uner

“Never say never. You never know when never may come.”
― T.A. Uner, The Leopard Stratagem

“Throughout history there have been those who have created change, and others who have feared it.”
― T.A. Uner

“In wars, it is always the children who suffer the most.”
― T.A. Uner, The Leopard Apocalypse

“How a man handles himself in defeat is more important than how he handles himself in victory.”
― T.A. Uner

“If you can't handle the answer, then don't ask the question.”
― T.A. Uner, The Leopard Apocalypse

“We don't need guns, we got dogs!”
― T.A. Uner, Guns and Dogs

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
― Albert Camus

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself”
― Dean Koontz

“Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.”
― Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

“Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.”
― John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”
― George E. Woodberry

“Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning
I am not here to tell you that defeat is a part of life: we all know that. Only the defeated know Love. Because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles – and generally lose.
I am here to tell you that there are people who have never been defeated.
They are the ones who never fought.
They managed to avoid scars, humiliations, feelings of helplessness, as well as those moments when even warriors doubt the existence of God.’’
Manuscript Found In Accra – Paulo Coelho”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you mute yourself, or moderate yourself, or repress your proneness to get excited or ecstatic or angry or emotionally involved...that day, you die as a writer.”
― Dwight V. Swain, Techniques of the Selling Writer

“But emotion, for most people, too often is like some sort of slumbering giant, lulled to sleep by preoccupation with the dead facts of that outer world we call objective. When we look at a painting, we see a price tag. A trip is logistics more than pleasure. Romance dies in household routine. Yet life without feeling is a sort of death.”
― Dwight V. Swain, Techniques of the Selling Writer

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve.
Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An
important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative
thinking and negative acting people. As you grow, your associates will
change. Some of your friends will not want you to go on. They will want you
to stay where they are. Friends that don't help you climb will want you to
crawl. Your friends will stretch your vision or choke your dream. Those that
don't increase you will eventually decrease you.

Consider this:
Never receive counsel from unproductive people. Never discuss your problems
with someone incapable of contributing to the solution, because those who
never succeed themselves are always first to tell you how. Not everyone has
a right to speak into your life. You are certain to get the worst of the
bargain when you exchange ideas with the wrong person. Don't follow anyone
who's not going anywhere.

With some people you spend an evening: with others you invest it. Be careful
where you stop to inquire for directions along the road of life. Wise is the
person who fortifies his life with the right friendships. If you run with
wolves, you will learn how to howl. But, if you associate with eagles, you
will learn how to soar to great heights.
"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the
kind of friends he chooses."

The simple but true fact of life is that you become like those with whom you
closely associate - for the good and the bad.

Note: Be not mistaken. This is applicable to family as well as friends.
Yes...do love, appreciate and be thankful for your family, for they will
always be your family no matter what. Just know that they are human first
and though they are family to you, they may be a friend to someone else and
will fit somewhere in the criteria above.

"In Prosperity Our Friends Know Us. In Adversity We Know Our friends."

"Never make someone a priority when you are only an option for them."
"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things,you develop the habit in little matters.
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.."..”
― Colin Powell

“Everyone has the talent to succeed as long as they maintain the perseverance to never give up.”
― G.R. Paskoff

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic power of the spoken word, and that alone. The broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.”
― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein