“Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.”
Motivated feeling
Motivated Quotes — page 274 of 381
“Bind together your spare hours by the cord of some definite purpose.”
“Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.”
“Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.”
“Do what you like, but like what you do.”
“It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.”
“90 per cent of success is turning up.”
“If you don't work hard, then you aren't going to have the success that you want. But if you work hard and dig in, then you are going to have the success that you want.”
“The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece.”
“Go to bed; tired is stupid.”
“Dreams take short cuts.”
“As a writer, you are free.”
“I'm just trying to do my best every day, hoping that I have done my best every day, and its very easy in a way, but also it's not that easy. Every day counts.”
“I think that Billie (Jean King) and Zina (Garrison), they have a whole lot of experience. Even if I don't quite agree with something or have a different way of doing it this week, whatever they said, I did it right away and I found out that it was correct. I think that's helped a lot...I'm having fun. I had a lot of fun out there. Sometimes I was ready to smile -- but I knew I'd lose focus -- because I was doing things that I'd done in practice and we talked about. I was ready to laugh and give someone a high-five, but it wasn't time for that.”
“I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.”
“I love trying to beat what I've done so far.”
“Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.”
“What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?”
“When first the college rolls receive his name, The young enthusiast quilts his ease for fame; Through all his veins the fever of renown Burns from the strong contagion of the gown”
“I wrote three books, I had three greenhouses. It seemed to me to be very satisfactory.”