The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty — not marble floors and foundations. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) Category: Adversity
The cold is a good counselor, but it is cold. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Category: Adversity
For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, The voice follows… the voice follows everything about you… who you are. – Betty Buckley Category: teacher
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers dont come together in real groups. – Anne Rice Category: Success
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. – Booker T. Washington Category: Success
