In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best… — Dorothea Brande Contribution Copy Share Image
“My own experience has been that there is no field where one who is in earnest about learning to do good work… — Dorothea Brande Education Copy Share Image
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.… — Dorothea Brande Break Copy Share Image
The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility. — Dorothea Brande Brothers Copy Share Image
To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail. — Dorothea Brande Failure Copy Share Image
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow. — Dorothea Brande Sadness Copy Share Image
“I suspect that every teacher hears the same complaints, but that, being seldom a practicing author, he tends to dismiss them as… — Dorothea Brande Books Copy Share Image
Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their… — Dorothea Brande Books Copy Share Image
“All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.” — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run… — Dorothea Brande Art Copy Share Image
The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party… — Dorothea Brande Confidence Copy Share Image
Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to… — Dorothea Brande Art Copy Share Image
The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world. — Dorothea Brande Children Copy Share Image
it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum. — Dorothea Brande Bondage Copy Share Image
The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature… — Dorothea Brande Able Copy Share Image
Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct. — Dorothea Brande Moral Copy Share Image
If you can discover what you like, if you can discover what you truly believe about most of the major matters of… — Dorothea Brande Able Copy Share Image
Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility. — Dorothea Brande Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Old habits are strong and jealous. They will not be displaced easily if they get any warning that such plans are afoot;… — Dorothea Brande Habits Copy Share Image
