All my life I wanted to ...

All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
 Bernard Malamud

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
 Herb Kelleher
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Quotes from the same author

First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it.... The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.
 Bernard Malamud
It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.
 Bernard Malamud
The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.
 Bernard Malamud
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
 Bernard Malamud
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.
 Bernard Malamud