Morease Quotes & Sayings

Be a sponge. Spend as much time as possible with people who truly know their craft and be a great listener. That is how you learn. — Jerry Colangelo

Infinite Spirit, open the way — Florence Scovel Shinn

One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

How embarrassing it is to be human. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

You can run out of garlic, you can't really run out of music — Jace Wayland

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. — Lao-Tzu

Though the reverential legends about him are often magnificent, they work as perhaps all legends do: they obscure more than they reveal, and he becomes more a symbol than a human being. — Anonymous

What does a person need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense. And we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade. The years thunder by. — Sterling Hayden

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual. — Karl Abraham

Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder? — Milarepa

He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Adieu the clang of war's alarms! To other deeds my soul is strung, And sweeter notes shall now be sung; My harp shall all its powers reveal, To tell the tale my heart must feel; Love, Love alone, my lyre shall claim, In songs of bliss and sighs of flame. — Kathleen Baldwin

When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?' — Marya Hornbacher