Thinkings Hard Quotes & Sayings

I can think of few things more disastrous than starting a new correspondence with any one. Letters are a burden indeed ... they seem often the last straw that breaks the back ... you should see the piles of those that I must answer that litter and weight my writing table. — Rose Macaulay

What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English. — Erin McKean

Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility. — Khalil Gibran

Write like you talk. Often. — Seth Godin

And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only because more have been forced through the discipline of showing in writing why A leads to B. — Lawrence Lessig

When the only tool you have in your toolbox is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail. — Abraham H. Maslow

None of it is real, though, because reality lies in a different, more evanescent realm. These are only the names of some of the places in the archipelago of dreams. The true reality is the one you perceive around you, or that which you are fortunate enough to imagine for yourself. — Christopher Priest

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves. — Marge Piercy

Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high. — Ellen Burstyn

Jazz is my adventure. — Thelonious Monk

Mindfulness is a pause
the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies. — Tara Brach

Think of the first Apple II being shipped in 1977. It took almost a decade for it to land in my school where I could see it. — Brendan Iribe