You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born. Raymond E.Feist
There's always going to be comparisons, and that's unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician and have gone downhill since. Raymond E.Feist
One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.Raymond E.Feist
Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day. Raymond E.Feist
Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate. Raymond E.Feist
The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter. Raymond E.Feist
Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible. William Feather
Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you. William Feather
If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. William Feather
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be. William Feather
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. William Feather
Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it. William Feather
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers. William Feather
The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon. William Feather
Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it. William Feather
Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work. William Feather