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Frankisms
Short truths, collected over a lifetime of writing and teaching. Read a few, or lose an afternoon.
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“Woe to those who refuse to help others, for they will find no help for themselves. — Frank Ball”
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“The only writer who fails is the one who gives up. — Frank Ball”
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“The greatest of all rewards is to find a treasure you have lost. — Frank Ball”
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“Finding a treasure is great pleasure, but losing a treasure is tragedy. — Frank Ball”
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“Overnight successes require many years of work. — Frank Ball”
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“If you don’t own a goat, nobody can get your goat. — Frank Ball”
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“Our actions reveal the truth beyond the words we say. — Frank Ball”
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“Only the hopeless have no hope. — Frank Ball”
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“God wants to be your guide, not your chauffeur. — Frank Ball”
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“In following the Lord, we take one step at a time, right behind wherever he leads. — Frank Ball”
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“Woe to those who wait for perfect conditions, for they will never get anything done. — Frank Ball”
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“We should be thankful for the valleys. Without them, we wouldn’t appreciate the mountaintops. — Frank Ball”
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“Great words are birthed out of undying patience, as people endure an endless search for the right thing to say. — Frank Ball”
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“Unlike the question of a tree falling in the forest, we can know our voice in print will be heard when we’re not there. — Frank Ball”
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“The world we watch becomes the world in which we live. — Frank Ball”
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“We seek deserving people for our giving, but God serves the undeserving. — Frank Ball”
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“All work and no play can still be fun if you whistle. — Frank Ball”
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“True friends get to give. They don’t give to get. — Frank Ball”
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“The best goal is not to send a great message but to see a great message received. — Frank Ball”
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“Writers are like professional photographers, who have to bring everything into focus, making sure all the settings are right. — Frank Ball”
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“A lie has no power if it doesn’t appear to be true. — Frank Ball”
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“Without plenty of inspiration, perspiration stinks. — Frank Ball”
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“The grass will be greener on your side of the fence… if you water it. — Frank Ball”
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“Success is guaranteed only when we put our God-given talents to use. — Frank Ball”
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“A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind. — Robert Bolton”
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“A creator is able to love something that does not yet exist—even in the imagination—and bring it into existence. From nothing, something is formed. — Robert Fritz”
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“A credible idea makes people believe. An emotional idea makes people care. — Chip Heath”
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“A focus on self-esteem can actually hold people back from being effective at creating what they want. — Robert Fritz”
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“A library is thought in cold storage. — Herbert Samuel”
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“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. — Michelangelo”
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“A mind preoccupied with particulars cannot discover the larger picture. — Gabriele Lusser Rico”
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“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door. — Albert Camus”
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“All of us collect fortunes when we are children—a fortune of colors, of lights and darkness, of movements, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to this fortune when grown up. — Ingmar Bergman, quoted in Time, December 29, 1980”
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“All things are possible until they are proved impossible—and even the impossible may only be so, as of now. — Pearl S. Buck”
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“All too often, unfortunately, the property rights to our minds can be purchased outright for money. — Jim Loehr”
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“An important ability for all creators is being able to live with the unknown, the unresolved, the incongruent, and the contradictory. — Robert Fritz”
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“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. — Albert Einstein”
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“As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without culture, so the mind without cultivation can never produce good fruit. — Seneca”
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“As you become a better creator, you begin to develop an instinct for the actions that work and the actions that do not work. — Robert Fritz”
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“Be ready to find what you’re not looking for. — Marshall J. Cook”
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