If you think you can do it, you can.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.