{"id":249,"date":"2012-09-26T11:27:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T11:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/?p=249"},"modified":"2014-04-21T09:50:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T13:50:21","slug":"stay-away-from-small-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/quotes\/inspiration\/stay-away-from-small-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay away from small people…"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are here to lift each other up, not tear one another down.<\/p>\n

This is one of the great life lessons that sooner or later we all must learn. \u00a0We are fooled sometimes because in the short-run competition\u00a0appears to work. \u00a0If you win, I lose — therefore in order for me to win, you must lose. \u00a0In the end however it is never us against them, it is only us against ourselves.<\/p>\n

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. \u00a0Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too can become great.”<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0~Mark Twain<\/p>\n

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Here’s an article from the site you might enjoy:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

“There Are No Artists”<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>— Who are you really competing against?<\/em><\/p>\n

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We are here to lift each other up, not tear one another down. This is one of the great life lessons that sooner or later we all must learn. \u00a0We are fooled sometimes because in the short-run competition\u00a0appears to work. \u00a0If you win, I lose — therefore in order for50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,22],"tags":[32,34,43,42,33,31,72,115,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","category-success","tag-image-quotes","tag-image-quotes-about-life","tag-image-quotes-about-life-tumblr","tag-image-quotes-and-sayings","tag-image-quotes-for-facebook","tag-image-quotes-to-live-by","tag-inspirational-image-quotes","tag-mark-twain","tag-mark-twain-quotes","tag-mark-twain-quotes-love","tag-mark-twain-quotes-on-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Mark-Twain-Image-Quote-LiftUp.jpg?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Luu2-41","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skinnyartist.com\/pin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}