Arthur Golden
Arthur Golden
Arthur Goldenis an American writer. He is the author of the bestselling novel Memoirs of a Geisha...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 December 1956
CountryUnited States of America
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It's worth bearing in mind that Hamlet makes poor Danish history and that Lawrence of Arabia grossly oversimplifies the politics and cultures of the Middle East.
inspirational success fear
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
moving fighting use
We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.
life saying-goodbye thinking
I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
inspirational strength success
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
giving-up rivers dams
Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.
confidence fighting men
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.
pain thinking speak
I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
powerful iron fire
Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
mother water stones
My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.
fighting kind urgency
When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
inspirational life one-direction
We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.
moving opportunity destiny
If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.
song mind singing
He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.