It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

J. K. Rowling Quotes

English - Author Born: July 31, 1965

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. - J. K. Rowling

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. J. K. Rowling

More, Far, Than

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. J. K. Rowling

Failure, Which, Might

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side. - J. K. Rowling

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side. J. K. Rowling

Sometimes, Side, Tendency

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. - J. K. Rowling

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. J. K. Rowling

Equality, Measure Of A Man

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. J. K. Rowling

Envision, Shared, Capacity

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. J. K. Rowling

Courage, Enemies, Deal

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers. - J. K. Rowling

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers. J. K. Rowling

Curse, Been, Boon

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. - J. K. Rowling

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. J. K. Rowling

Enough, Possible, Nerve

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. - J. K. Rowling

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. J. K. Rowling

More, Indifference, Damage

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. J. K. Rowling

Stress, Which, Entails

Top 10
J. K. Rowling
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss. J. K. Rowling

Bliss, Idea, Wandering

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. - J. K. Rowling

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. J. K. Rowling

Forget, Dwell, Does

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. J. K. Rowling

Benefits, Other, Mattered

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential. - J. K. Rowling

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential. J. K. Rowling

Away, Means, Stripping

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had. J. K. Rowling

Remembered, She, Would

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. J. K. Rowling

My Life, Big, Became

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently. J. K. Rowling

Think, Give, Given

On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story. J. K. Rowling

Love, Literary, Subject

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does. - J. K. Rowling

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does. J. K. Rowling

Meet, Will, Does

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with. J. K. Rowling

Never, Ashamed, Bothering

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary. J. K. Rowling

The Most Important, Give

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. J. K. Rowling

Young, Old, Feels

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance. J. K. Rowling

World, Meet, Very

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write. J. K. Rowling

Always, Some, I Write

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun. J. K. Rowling

Regret, Benefits, Away

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. J. K. Rowling

College, Been, However

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