…a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator….
– John Geddes
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- Dream the impossible.See the impossible.Pursue the impossible.Achieve the impossible. – Matshona Dhliwayo
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- …each person is required to ask, ‘what is my authority?’ – on what do you base your decisions? if it’s yourself, then you are without excuse… – John Geddes
- Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. – Clive James
- Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority. – GK Chesterton
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- God is the originator of life. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Creativity is the ability to create novel value, creative mind is defined as the originator. – Pearl Zhu
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- …if you’re an actor, and you’ve thought your way into the part, then you’re character portrayal will have authority… – John Geddes
- It is nearly impossible.”Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing. – Kristin Hannah
- Most of the things we deem as impossible are only impossible because we’ve given them permission to be impossible. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- System fails when people with ability don’t have authority and people with authority don’t have ability. – Amit Kalantri
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- Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. – Robert Louis Stevenson
- A pessimist says the glass is half empty, an optimist says the glass is half full, and an engineer says the glass is too big. – Scott Edward Shjefte
- What’s true about you is what God says about you. Not what your mirror says. Not what your past says. – Mark Hall
- The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority. – Kenneth H Blanchard
- Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation. – Pearl S Buck
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- Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
- Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
- Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well. – Richard Llewellyn
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- …when you’re a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself… – John Geddes
- …If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood-”but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum… – John Geddes
- Even if everybody says it’s impossible, with determination, there is always something you can do. The last thing is to give up without trying. – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Even if everybody says it’s impossible, with determination, there is always something you can do. The last thing is to give up without trying – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- …I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense – but even there I can’t even control what people do… – John Geddes