Famous John Maclean Quotes & Sayings

The Strategy of Scheduling, of setting a specific, regular time for an activity to recur, is one of the most familiar and powerful strategies of habit formation — Gretchen Rubin

Showing a videogame character terrified and scared is something that's not really done that much. — Rhianna Pratchett

The difference between the called and chosen is the chosen choose what God called them to, no matter where the choice takes them. — Hope D. Blackwell

I am entirely convinced that what is more than anything else lacking in the life of the average well-intentioned man of to-day is the reflective mood. — Arnold Bennett

Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial; the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade. But do not pity them overly, it is your own death and your soul's death that they work by their deception. — R.A. Lafferty

I understand that you are under a lot of pressure and that it's hard being a bride. That is all well and good. But it does not, ever, entitle you to be rude, selfish, uncaring, and generally obnoxious to me or Haven or anyone else. We've been very patient with you because we're your family and we love you, but it stops here. I don't care if the wedding is two weeks or two hours away, you were never raised to behave this way. — Sarah Dessen

A general must be shot or befriended - but never hurt. — Salvador De Madariaga

How we care for ourselves gives our brain messages that shape our self-worth so we must care for ourselves in every way, every day. — Sam Owen

It was the tiredness of time lived, with its days and days. It was the tiredness of gravity- gravity, which wants you down in the center of the earth. — Martin Amis

There's no such thing as 'too late!' That's why they invented death! — Walter Matthau

We seek the truth and will endure the consequences. — Charles Seymour

You may have noticed that Turlough spent a great deal of time kept captive in various states of bondage. It was always a disappointment to me that there seemed to be no getting around this problem. — Mark Strickson

The most important thing a writer can do after completing a sentence is to stay in the room. The great temptation is to leave the room to celebrate the completion of the sentence or to go out in the den where the television lies like a dormant monster and rest up for a few days for the next sentence or to go wander the seductive possibilities of the kitchen. But. It's simple. The writer is the person who stays in the room. The writer wants to read what she is in the process of creating with such passion and devotion that she will not leave the room. The writer understand that to stand up from the desk is to fail, and to leave the room is so radical and thorough a failure as to not be reversible. Who is not in the room writing? Everybody. Is it difficult to stay in the room, especially when you are not sure of what you're doing, where you're going? Yes. It's impossible. Who can do it? The writer. — Ron Carlson

I'M PINOCCHIO. I KILL MONSTERS. — Van Jensen