Quotes & Sayings About Walking Blindly

Did you do something crazy, like cut it all off?" "Well," I said, "not all." "But it's real short, right?" "Yeah, but - " "Why did you do it? — Ann M. Martin

Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake? — Steve Maraboli

Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular. — Barbara Kingsolver

There are about a dozen great computer graphics people and Jim Blinn is six of them. — Ivan Sutherland

I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write a book. This never happened. The process was akin to blindly walking in the dark, feeling my way only by touch, and only recognising dead ends when I smacked into them. — Hannah Kent

Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride. — Vince Lombardi

Enraged
I throw myself to the ground and I scream,
my best friend is gone, this world is so mean.
I cry as I pound my fists on his grass,
I'm very upset that our time went so fast.
My heart beats faster than ever before,
my tears unstoppable, I'm hurt to the core.
There are no words people can say,
that will ease my excruciating pain.
I don't understand why you had to go.
You leaving me, we just didn't know.
I'll make it somehow, I'll start anew.
But, there is no way I can replace you.
I struggle to make it through each day,
and retain my sanity in this foggy haze.
The sadness and pain that I display,
is because God decided to take you away. — Michele Lena Lucy

What can I recommend? Trust your story; trust yourself; trust your readers - but wisely. Trust watchfully, not blindly. Trust flexibly, not rigidly. The whole thing, writing a story, is a high-wire act - there you are out in midair walking on a spiderweb line of words, and down in the darkness people are watching. What can you trust but your sense of balance? — Ursula K. Le Guin

There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions. — Stephen Hawking

I sighed. I hated the maze of bureaucracy with a passion, but I've found the best way to deal with it is to smile and act stupid. That way, no one gets confused. — Kim Harrison

Even through the hollow eyes of death
I spy life peering. — William Shakespeare

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization. — W.E.B. Du Bois