Bondage Quote by Dorothea Brande

In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to…

— Dorothea Brande

“My own experience has been that there is no field where one who is in earnest about learning to do good work can make…

— Dorothea Brande

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is…

— Dorothea Brande

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

— Dorothea Brande

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

— Dorothea Brande

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

— Dorothea Brande

“I suspect that every teacher hears the same complaints, but that, being seldom a practicing author, he tends to dismiss them as out of…

— Dorothea Brande

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or…

— Dorothea Brande

“All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.”

— Dorothea Brande

Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover,…

— Dorothea Brande

The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard…

— Dorothea Brande

Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good…

— Dorothea Brande