To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you think you can do it, you can.
After a storm comes a calm.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
I can, therefore I am.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
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.