David James Duncan Quote

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

It's so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I've felt.

Give yourself a great self-respect to know who you are then your confidence will shine on you

All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling

There is no competition of sounds between a nightingale and a violin.

My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...

When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in.

I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.

Tweet others the way you want to want to be tweeted.

You may delay, but time will not.