#raging

You will and should do everything in your power to improve your actual writing skills. You’ll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it’s the story that matters. Don’t ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make them happy and sad and excited and scared. Make them stare into space after they’ve put the book down, thinking about the tale that’s become a part of them. Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story. ↗

— James Dashner

#inspirational #inspirational

For within your flesh, deep within the center of your being, is the undaunted, waiting, longing, all-knowing. Is the ready, able, perfect. Within you, waiting its turn to emerge, piece by piece, with the dawn of every former test of trial and blackness, is the next unfolding, the great unfurling of wings, the re-forged backbone of a true Child of Light. ↗

— Jennifer DeLucy

#empower #empowering #empowerment #encouraging #growth

The most important and urgent appeal we have to make is for an immediate cease-fire. Initial reports from the cease-fire talks being held in N'Djamena in Chad are not very encouraging. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#being #cease-fire #chad #encouraging #held

You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset. ↗

— Tom Hopkins

#effort #encouraging #greatest #greatest asset #grooming

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#down #else #everybody #everybody else #i

Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence. ↗

— Jenna Elfman

#does #encouraging #gives #hippie #hippies

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#always #comes #disparaging #extent #gilt

I'm really happy that I got to work with such fresh talent. In a day when record companies are not particularly good at encouraging young, talented songwriters to come forward and get exposure, I think it's important to give tomorrow's songwriters the opportunity. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#companies #day #encouraging #exposure #forward

When you're encouraging - the government is encouraging guns to be sold illegally to people that shouldn't have them, the laws aren't being faithfully executed. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#encouraging #executed #faithfully #government #guns

One is, that they will feel about you that you're going to make something wonderful for them. And they help you by expressing themselves. Not telling you how to do it, but encouraging you and accepting your vision and working with you on that kind of a level. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#accepting #encouraging #expressing #feel #going