"Who doesn't love a compliment? But every compliment……" — Jerry Spinelli
"Who doesn't love a compliment? But every compliment comes with a warning: Beware—Do Not Overuse. Go ahead, sniff your compliment. Take a little sip. But don't chew, don't swallow. If you do, you risk abandoning the good work that inspired the compliment in the first place. If that happens, maybe it was the compliment and not the job well done that you were aiming for all along."
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149 Quotes by Jerry Spinelli
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I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no…
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Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it…
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Peer pressure is just that: pressure.
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It (enchantment) started when the earth was born. It never stops. It is, always. It's just here.
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Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
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And the more you love someone, the safer it is to be mad at them. Love can handle mad, no…
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Angels and crows passed each other, one leaving, the other coming.
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The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do…
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It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a…
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Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted,…
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I became a children's author by accident.
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I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.
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Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything.…
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Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes…
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True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from…
— Julia Hill
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The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every…
— Jean Lorrain
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However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving…
— Allen Ginsberg
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Perhaps the real point of life is simply to wear us down until we have no choice but to start…
— Katrina Kenison
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
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If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have…
— Tom Regan
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Do you believe that Jesus is worth abandoning everything for? Do you believe him enough to obey him and to…
— David Platt
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When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a…
— Gautama Buddha
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A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily,…
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