Robert Littell quotes
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“The difference between and amateur and a professional.. a professional believes if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. An amateur believes if a job is worth doing, it very well may be worth doing badly.”
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“Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.”
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“I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.”
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“Mark Twain said, The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug. Fill your book with lightning.”
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“An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.”
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“Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.”
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Source : Adam Grant (2013). “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success”, p.181, Penguin
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