Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. ― Douglas Pagels

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Story = Character + Predicament + Attempted Extrication. - Jonathan Gottschall

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If you’re not telling your story, somebody is telling it for you. – Michael Margolis

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Be your own motivation. — Jon Jones

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When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done. - Stephen King

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I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.' - Jordan Peterson

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We make our own hell out of the people around us.

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My journalistic heroes are all the guys like Peter Arnett of Vietnam, and my style in journalism is you got to stand there, and you got to see it with your own eyes. - Johnny Colt

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I’m out there to clean the plate. Once they’ve read what I’ve written on a subject, I want them to think, ‘That’s it!’ I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they’ve written a story, nobody will ever try it again. - Richard Ben Cramer

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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes. ― Joseph Stalin

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