My 7 Favorite Quotes From My Favorite Speeches

These words inspire me to write every day. They inspire me to be better.

Benjamin Watkins
3 min readMar 22, 2023
Photo by Miguel Henriques on Unsplash

I love listening to great speeches and talks.

They inspire me to write. They inspire me to try. I learn about failure, and success, and how they are a part of life. How others experience it. How they overcome it.

I put together a list of quotes that stuck out the most to me. They made me think about my journey as a writer.

Perhaps they can help you.

Neil Gaiman, “Make Good Art”

“The problems of failure are hard.

The problems of success can be harder, because nobody warns you about them.

The first problem of any kind of even limited success is the unshakable conviction that you are getting away with something, and that any moment now they will discover you. It’s Imposter Syndrome, something my wife Amanda christened the Fraud Police.”

Bill Gurley “Runnin’ Down a Dream: How to…

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Benjamin Watkins
Benjamin Watkins

Written by Benjamin Watkins

Founder of ThisIsCopy.com | Health Tech Copywriter | Copywriting examples at https://laviebenrose.substack.com/. Dad of five adventurous kids..

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