All Quotes By Tag: Inspiration
“Today is a gift that will be taken from you at day’s end. Don’t waste a moment, a chance, a lesson. You’ll never live today again.”
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“The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them with his own people, all by the powers of his imagination. It’s the closest a man can come close to the gods. No wonder the most successful writers are considered immortals”
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“I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid anymore, because when I write, I am not trying to prove anything to anyone, I am just expressing myself and my opinions. It’s ok if my opinions are different from those of the reader, each of us can have his own opinions. So writing is like talking, if you are afraid of writing, you may end up being afraid of talking”
“Think the tree that bears nutrition:though the fruits are picked, the plant maintains fruition.So give all the love you have.Do not hold any in reserve.What is given is not lost; it shall return.”
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“The best traveler is one without a camera.”
“Success hasn’t any time allotment! Study while others are Sleeping; Work while others are Loafing; Prepare while others are Playing; And Dream while others are Wishing. No matter about the situation just keep it on and one day you’re going to be proud-full at yourselves.”
“A bad attitude is like moths, it will eat everything good you have in your life.”
“I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism.”
“You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much.That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste.If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself.”
“There is no time to waste in life and there is no cut and paste as well, only copy and paste – you can only emulate others”
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“Jeremy and Karl and Elizabeth have known each other since the first day of kindergarten. Amy and Talis are a year younger…Now the five are inseparable; invincible. They imagine that life will always be like this–like a television show in eternal syndication–that they will always have each other. They use the same vocabulary. They borrow each other’s books and music. They share lunches, and they never say anything when Jeremy comes over and takes a shower. They all know Jeremy’s father is eccentric. He’s supposed to be eccentric. He’s a novelist.”
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“It’s not something he can do anything about, being a bleeder, anymore than a guy with a glass jaw can do something about not having whiskers.”
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“The stationary condition is the beginning of the end”
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“It is a cliche that human beings are fascinated by size–mountain peaks, high buildings, and whales. We are also amazed by miniatures–a flea on a mouse, a flea on a trapeze, the Last Supper carved on the head of a pin.”
“take words and make them useful,’ she told me. ‘drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make them mean something useful instead.”