"I’m sure not afraid of success and I’ve learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I’m afraid of now is of being someone I don’t like much."
― Anna Quindlen
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Success
― Anna Quindlen
More From Anna Quindlen
- "In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat."
- "After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough.’"
- "Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers’ incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?"
More In Success
- "God cannot alter the past, though historians can."― Samuel Butler
- "Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They’re very annoying."― Neil Young
- "Back in the East you can’t do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power."― Tom Stoppard