Zwick And Jahn Quotes & Sayings

You can only derive pleasure from work when it is in the sphere of your calling — Sunday Adelaja

Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external. — Isaac Newton

The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is that it can be rewritten. It can be improved. A blank page is zero. In fact, it's worse than zero, because it represents territory you're afraid, unwilling, or too lazy to explore. Avoid exploring this territory long enough, and you'll abandon your book. — Timothy Hallinan

The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never. — Napoleon Bonaparte

WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN? "How many drinks have you had?" FORTY-SEVEN. "Just about anything, then," said the barman — Terry Pratchett

Even in an apocalypse like this, surely running out of Coke
qualified as a disaster. — Rachel Caine

Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies. — Fernand Braudel

It would be better to give up the notion of writing until you are better prepared. Now it's time to be living. I don't want to frighten you, but I would like to make you understand the import of what you think of attempting. You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say. — Sherwood Anderson

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice. — Tony Kushner

Ya' know, these days kids seem to be getting younger and younger. — David Foster

Trust your passion, identify your dreams, and find the courage to share them with others, no matter how many times they call you a fool. — Bill Strickland

Idly, I flipped through the ledger's pages, for I cannot resist a book set before me no matter its kind. Writing draws my eye; I am impelled as by sorcery to read even if it is an accountant's list or a solicitor's instructions or, as here, nothing more than a record of travelers who have passed through this inn. — Kate Elliot

Why should I bend for something which I deserve. Give it in my hands! — Nelson Jack