Ashcan Studio Quotes & Sayings

Education lays the foundation of a large portion of the causes of mental disorder — Malcolm Gladwell

A friend is a person who likes you for what you are, in spite of all your faults, all your shortcomings. — Alfred Armand Montapert

Instead of saying "Amanda took one look at the hotel room and recoiled in disgust," describe the room in such a way that the readers feel that disgust for themselves. You don't want to give your readers information. You want to give them experiences. — Renni Browne

You think I'm strong because I sound off and go on about things and am very direct and seem very full of myself ... but the truth is, I am much, much feebler than you. I just go on like this to keep my end up. You think what you're doing is right and that gives you strength. You see, I know I'm not right, I know there is no right. The only "right" I am is that I know what I like and what I want, and what I like and what I want is you, more than anyone else in all the world does, or could."
Thomas to Elizabeth "The Other Side of You — Salley Vickers

If high ideals make a young man rude, the sooner he gets rid of them the better, — E. M. Forster

If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion ... you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing. — Jane McGonigal

Before you can do anything else in the lives of others, you must show them love. — John C. Maxwell

There was other stuff, too, like how something can be so much more than the parts it took to make it, and why people need things around them that lift them above their lives and make them feel the miracle of living. — Wendelin Van Draanen

Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000. — Fay Vincent