Terry Rossio Quotes

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• You should quit trying only after two conditions have been met: 1.) You've given yourself a legitimate shot. 2.) Trying is no longer fun.
• Once learned, the ability to disagree with a smile pays valuable dividends for a lifetime.
• A child should have every advantage - including those taught by disadvantage.
• Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference.
• My lousy way of getting it done is better than your great way of not doing it.
• Mistakes are the byproduct of action - and thus an accurate gauge of effort.
• Most will choose to leave someone who can't bear to see them go.
• A fool harvests his opinions in the spring.
• Personal happiness is so important, most choose to let someone else take care of it.
• Talent is truth on display.
• Human beings are compelled to adopt a belief system; some paradigm to provide meaning, purpose, and understanding to our lives. A quick survey of the…
• It's easier to be old than young. You make just as many blunders, but you've become much more adept at not recognizing them.
• You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else.
• The resolve to diet is most easily summoned on a full stomach.
• It seems quite proper to fear achievement, which, after all, is proof that you've successfully moved an experience from the delightfully anticipated future into the…
• How do we not rue the many unchosen paths in life? A blessed lack of imagination. There are enough real glories along any path to…
• Success is less rare than the courage to attempt it.
• Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it would be easier…
• It is a rare man who can prevail in the face of comfort. Freedom is fragile and elusive, for rarely does the appreciation of it…
• In Hollywood, story content of movies follows a hierarchy of power, not the relative quality of various ideas. Hollywood does not lack for quality writing.…

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