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“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
—Franz Kafka
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 29, 2014
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule
to read some poetry and listen to some music every week.”
—Charles Darwin
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 29, 2014
“Success is going from failure to failure
without losing your enthusiasm.”
—Winston Churchill
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 28, 2014
“It’s so much easier to be a critic than a celebrator.”
—Maria Popova
Tweeted by @CreativeLive on August 27, 2014
“A theme is something that is worth something to everybody.”
—Frank O’Connor
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 27, 2014
“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
—Samuel Beckett
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 26, 2014
“There are still faint glimmers of civilization left
in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity.”
—Wes Anderson’s film “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Tweeted by @stuartbache on August 24, 2014
“I’m really after keeping the reader
in a heightened state of vigilance.”
—Mark Leyner
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 23, 2014
“We can’t practice compassion with other people
if we can’t treat ourselves kindly.”
—Brené Brown
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on August 22, 2014
“Getting started is like getting a rocket off the ground.
You need the most energy and the most push to get started.”
—Robert Crumb
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 22, 2014
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
—James Joyce
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 22, 2014
“It is impossible to love and be wise.”
—Francis Bacon
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 21, 2014
“We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words,
you are the hero of your own story.”
—Mary McCarthy
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 21, 2014
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
—George Eliot
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 20, 2014
“A good interview reveals something that the subject
has never said before.”
—Kenzaburo Oe
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 19, 2014
“Character—the willingness to accept responsibility
for one’s own life—is the source from which self-respect springs.”
—Joan Didion
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 18, 2014
“I spent so much of my life telling people the things
they wanted to hear instead of the things they needed to.”
—Clint Smith
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on August 16, 2014
“You have these intellectual fingerprints,
and you can’t help leaving them on things.”
—Michael Frayn
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 15, 2014
“Go after what creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself
to handle the stress that follows.”
—Kelly McGonigal
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on August 15, 2014
“Only humankind is so thoroughly narrative,
constantly reinventing the past or imagining the future.”
—Jim Crace
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 15, 2014
“The act of teaching is one of the most valuable ways to learn.”
—Adam Braun
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on August 15, 2014
“Being a writer is like being an individual proprietor...
You don’t like the way I do things, get out of my shop.”
—Peter Carey
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 15, 2014
“If you raise money from huge numbers of people,
you feel beholden to huge numbers of people.”
—Tim Wu
Tweeted by @s_pease on August 14, 2014
“More iterations don’t fix faulty assumptions!”
—Mark Hurst
Tweeted by @swissmiss on August 14, 2014
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
—Virginia Woolf
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 14, 2014
“I think of the notebook as a house for words,
as a secret place for thought and self-examination.”
—Paul Auster
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 13, 2014
“I think I’ve damn well earned the right to be judged on my own.”
—Lauren Bacall
Tweeted by @50000feet on August 13, 2014
“We live in a world where if you tell people you’re depressed,
everyone runs the other way.”
—Kevin Breel
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on August 12, 2014
“It doesn’t seem to me that life conforms to systems.
Only systems conform to systems.”
—Wallace Stegner
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 12, 2014
“If you didn’t feel troubled with the world,
you probably wouldn’t go to the effort of making art.”
—W. D. Snodgrass
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 12, 2014
“You must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer
you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.”
—Robin Williams
Tweeted by @Fender on August 12, 2014
“The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity
to go over it and make it good, one way or another.”
—James Salter
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 12, 2014
“Why write? To write. To make something.”
—Claude Simon
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 11, 2014
“Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools
but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.”
—Simon Sinek
Tweeted by @LiveGrey on August 10, 2014
“Not only do I want the reader to [but] I want to get inside
the events and feel what it was like.”
—David McCullough
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 10, 2014
“A novel is a marriage: one has to be cunning,
devise compromises and make sacrifices.”
—Amos Oz
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 9, 2014
“Stories are a fundamental human form of thought.”
—Iris Murdoch
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 9, 2014
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight,
and his punishment is that he sees the dawn
before the rest of the world.”
—Oscar Wilde
Tweeted by @TheSchoolOfLife on August 9, 2014
“It may be unhealthy, but I feel that without literature
my life would have no meaning.”
—Naguib Mahfouz
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 9, 2014
“Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.”
—Bill Cosby
Tweeted by @LiveGrey on August 9, 2014
“It’s the most exciting moment when you discover life
in what you’ve created, a life you have to respect.”
—Mario Vargas Llosa
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 8, 2014
“I am glad I have found a readership, but one can’t write
only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper.”
—Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 7, 2014
“Four hours of uninterrupted time is the best gift
you can give anybody at work.”
—Jason Fried
Tweeted by @TEDTalks on August 6, 2014
“That art is as much about ideas as it is about things,
about emotions as much as about materials.”
—Holland Cotter
Tweeted by @mkonnikova on August 6, 2014
“Not everything will be okay but some things will.”
—Maira Kalman
Tweeted by @swissmiss on August 6, 2014
“Any time a writer tells you where a book starts, he is lying,
because I don’t think he knows.”
—John Gregory Dunne
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 6, 2014
“The things you think of to link are not in your own control.
It’s just who you are, bumping into the world. But how you link them is what shows the nature of your mind. Indivduality resides in the way links are made.”
—Anne Carson
Tweeted by @parisreview on August 5, 2014
“No company with such disregard for their own customers
will succeed for long.”
—John Gruber
Tweeted by @swissmiss on August 4, 2014
“The tallest oak in the forest
was once just a little nut that held its ground.”
—Unknown
Tweeted by @collabfund on August 4, 2014
“Leaders must show they care about their employees’ agenda
before they can expect employees to care about the company’s agenda.”
—Doug Conant
Tweeted by @DougConant on August 2, 2014
“If you’re lucky enough to do well, it’s your responsibility
to send the elevator back down.”
—Kevin Spacey
Tweeted by @marciamarcia on August 2, 2014
“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”
—Harry Golden
Tweeted by @ItsFeelingGr8 on August 1, 2014
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