To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
It's always too early to quit.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Leap, and the net will appear.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
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.