Lashauna Porter Quotes & Sayings

Priorities versus Posteriorities Setting priorities requires setting posteriorities as well. A priority is something that you do more of and sooner, whereas a posteriority is something you do less of or later. You are probably already overwhelmed with too much to do and too little time. Because of this, for you to embark on a new task, you must discontinue an old task. Getting into something new requires getting out of another activity. Before you commit to a new undertaking, ask yourself, "What am I going to stop doing so that I have enough time to work on this new task?" Go through your life regularly and practice "creative abandonment": Consciously determine the activities that you are going to discontinue so that you have more time to spend on those tasks that can really make a difference to your future. — Brian Tracy

I Am ... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it. — Neil Diamond

Love in my case is not indispensable to pleasure, nor is respect. Is it possible, therefore, that the disgust, the humiliation begin afterward, when a man subdues you and violates you at his pleasure solely because now you belong to him, love or not, respect or not? — Elena Ferrante

For years, many public health campaigns that aimed at changing habits have been failures. — Charles Duhigg

The effect your readers want is for what they read to trigger in them the sights and sounds and smells of what's happening in the story. They don't want approximations, they don't want a report, they want to experience the story's reality. — Ray Rhamey

And Andy, gloomy and self-devouring, sat at his desk and chewed the cud of memory. — May Sarton

Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired. — Terry Gilliam

I pushed the door inward. It moved as smoothly, as silently as the mechanism of a well-crafted, spring-loaded trap. — Dean Koontz

Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession's practitioners is what drives change and makes achievement a process rather than simply a goal. — Henry Petroski

If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward's in trouble 'cause no one is home. — Laurell K. Hamilton