If you think you can do it, you can.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Well done is better than well said.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
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.