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"As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words."
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"People who truly serve God embrace light, they fall in love with light, and they proclaim light, they fight with light."

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else."

"There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint."

"The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty."

"Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast."

"Don't let your ego put you in a compromising situation. Don't allow your pride to keep you from seeking the help you need. And don't give in to your fears. Stay focused."

"Be on time! If you have a 15-minute appointment-keep it at fifteen minutes unless there is mutual agreement to continue."

"There may be a Nurse Ratched-like listing of things that must be done right this moment: foods that must come out of the freezer, appointments that must be canceled or made, hairs that must be tweezed. But you hold an imaginary gun to your head and make yourself stay at the desk."

"Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God's warriors than standing still."

"Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why."
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"I once heard of a class teacher who'd punish every student wearing a blue shirt whenever a student wearing blue shirt had committed a mistake. I thought that was pretty bad. I then heard of a class teacher who'd punish every student wearing a blue shirt whenever someone in blue shirt committed a mistake somewhere else. Clearly, the worst is not a reality."

"We had firsthand witnessed the ethereal evil of crushing hope just when it had peaked-like an open door, visible to you as you approach it from miles away, just closing on you when you have only two more yards to go."

"Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning."

"Discipline at the office had long been enforced by use of three methods: the meeting of the first kind, the meeting of the second kind, and the meeting of the third kind."

"Many storytellers with possibly more potential than Shakespeare, even though I have not read much of him, could not hit much fame because they treated their stories like their wives. Rather than limiting the emotion only to flirting with their stories, they married them, thus limiting their chances of experimenting."
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