“Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,
Of habits devil, is angel yet in this,
That to the use of actions fair and good
He likewise gives a frock or livery
That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight,
And that shall lend a kind of easiness
To the next abstinence; the next more easy;
For use almost can change the stamp of nature.”
― Hamlet
That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,
Of habits devil, is angel yet in this,
That to the use of actions fair and good
He likewise gives a frock or livery
That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight,
And that shall lend a kind of easiness
To the next abstinence; the next more easy;
For use almost can change the stamp of nature.”
― Hamlet
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Don't be a damned ammunition wagon. Be a rifle!”
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“The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it,”
― Effortless Mastery
― Effortless Mastery
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