Frederick Fennell Quotes

#1. What we call "imperfections" are illusions caused by expectation. They are a psychological warning that we are not seeing true potential, but self- imposed limitation.

Steve Maraboli

#2. The task of government was not to stop selfish striving - a hopeless task - but to harness it for the public good.

Ron Chernow

#3. Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through the ages.

Darcy O'Brien

#4. Michelangelo didn't show David triumphant, the way every other sculptor did. He showed David before he fought Goliath - when David believed he was doomed and went into battle anyway.

James Patterson

#5. When you fall in love, you fall in love with yourself, when you kill yourself, you kill someone else.

Jessica Treat

#6. Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.

Marilyn Monroe

#7. Children. Pay close attention to them. They grow up to be adults. The really heinous people we see on the news? The serial killers, murderers, rapists, and complete ass-hats of society? Yeah, they were children once. And no one paid attention.

Scott Hildreth

#8. When writing a thank-you if you've had lunch with someone downtown, send an e-mail. If somebody is giving you a dinner party in his or her home and all the work that takes, that person deserves a written thank-you.

Letitia Baldrige