“With diligent practice, you will be an expert.”— Lailah Gifty Akita Related Quotes “One by one, all of my college buddies had taken these nothing-special entry-level jobs, pushing papers for $18,000 or $21,000 a year (and hating the work besides), and I’d turn up my nose and tell them I wasn’t about to get out of bed for anything less than $50,000. That was my line, my attitude.”— Bill Rancic “We work very hard to have what Buddha gave up to become enlightened. Does that mean we are benighted?”— Rohan and Mohan Perera “Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art.”— Gore Vidal