Harron Atkins Quotes & Sayings

Carve out the time. Notice I do not say find the time. That is an absurd and dangerous phrase. Time is never lying around waiting for us to find her. She is elusive. She wants you to sculpt her like clay, to mold her into exactly the form you desire your days to take. If you refuse to do that, if you spend your mornings worrying and your afternoons catering to others, always hoping there will be a few minutes left for you, time will play you like a sucker, making you run harder and faster with each passing week. Time wants you to realize that she is the most precious and irreducible fact in your live. Make her into what you will — Jennifer Louden

A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side. — Will Rogers

The work for giants ... to serve well the guns! — Walt Whitman

I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost. — V.S. Naipaul

It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing. — Anonymous

We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know. — Joan Didion