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Quotes

A long long time ago I began collecting inspirational quotes and aphorisms which became my collection of quotes.

Theater

March 20

The truth is the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theater.

~ David Foster Wallace

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Valor Quotes David Foster Wallace Inspirational Quotes book (reviewed)

Manual labor of the mind

March 16

Writing is essentially donkey work, manual labor of the mind. What makes it bearable are those moments (which sometimes can last for weeks, months) when the book takes over, takes on a life of its own, goes off in unexpected directions.

~ John Gregory Dunne

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Quotes On Writing Inspirational Quotes book (reviewed) John Gregory Dunne

New ideas

March 11

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.

~ Oliver Wendell Berry

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Quotes Curiosity Inspirational Quotes book (reviewed) Oliver Wendell Berry

Be a reader

March 5

I’m not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I’m saying it helps.

~ Walter Mosley

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Quotes Inspirational Quotes book (reviewed)

The real fear

March 3

These are serious fears. But they’re not the real fear. Not the Master Fear, the Mother of all Fears that’s so close to us that even when we verbalize it we don’t believe it. Fear That We Will Succeed. That we can access the powers we secretly know we possess. That we can become the person we sense in our hearts we truly are.

~ Steven Pressfield

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Quotes Fear On Writing Steven Pressfield Creativity Inspirational Quotes book (selected)

Premeditation

March 1

The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; He who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.

~ Montaigne

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Inspirational Quotes book (reviewed) Michel de Montaigne Memento Mori Quotes

Boring

February 27

Somebody’s boring me—I think it’s me.

~ Dylan Thomas

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Inspirational Quotes book (reviewed) Snark Quotes Dylan Thomas

The creative mind

February 25

The creative mind gets poisoned with the idea that your great work will be the result of getting serious. So many of my good ideas come from what looks like goofing off, wasting time. Art is play. There’s no way to tell what’s deep or shallow until you play with the idea.

~ Austin Kleon

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Quotes Play Creativity Austin Kleon 7 for Sunday Inspirational Quotes book (reviewed)

Who was listening

February 23

[…] so the Muse whispered in Beethoven’s ear. Maybe she hummed a few bars into a million other ears. But no one else heard her. Only Beethoven got it.

~ Steven Pressfield

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Quotes Steven Pressfield Inspirational Quotes book (reviewed)

Sleep

February 21

It’s a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

~ John Steinbeck

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Quotes Inspirational Quotes book (reviewed) Sleep John Steinbeck

A bore

February 19

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.

~ Bert Taylor

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Quotes Bert Taylor Inspirational Quotes book (reviewed)

Acceptance

February 17

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

~ Michael J. Fox

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Michael J. Fox Quotes Perspective 7 for Sunday Inspirational Quotes book (reviewed)

Freedom

February 15

I think freedom, ideally, is being able to choose your responsibilities. Not not having any responsibilities, but being able to choose which things you want to be responsible for.

~ Toni Morrison

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Quotes Freedom Toni Morrison Inspirational Quotes book (reviewed)

Professionalism

February 13

The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else. The ancient Spartans schooled themselves to regard the enemy, any enemy, as nameless and faceless. In other words, they believed that if they did their work, no force on Earth could stand against them.

~ Steven Pressfield

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Quotes Steven Pressfield Being Professional Inspirational Quotes book (reviewed)

One’s voice

February 9

The fact is one’s own voice is not heard anywhere else. It’s a challenge to be yourself. It makes a lot of courage.

~ Yusef Lateef

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Quotes Yusef Lateef Inspirational Quotes book (selected)

Self employment

February 7

Self employment, for me at least, is a never-ending contest between the world’s worst manager and the world’s laziest employee.

~ Daniel Akst

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Quotes Daniel Akst Inspirational Quotes book (reviewed)

Magical things

February 5

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

~ Eden Phillpotts

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Quotes 7 for Sunday Eden Phillpotts Inspirational Quotes book (reviewed)

Our limited imagination

February 3

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

~ Shakespeare‘s Hamlet

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Quotes Shakespeare 7 for Sunday Inspirational Quotes book (reviewed)

Overcoming fear

January 1

The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; Then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.

~ Steven Pressfield

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Quotes Fear Steven Pressfield Being Professional Resistance Inspirational Quotes book (reviewed)

Solitude

December 30

If we possess inward solitude we do not fear being alone, for we know that we are not alone. Neither do we fear being with others, for they do not control us. In the midst of noise and confusion we are settled into a deep inner silence. Whether alone or among people, we always carry with us a portable sanctuary of the heart.

~ Richard Foster

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Inspirational Quotes book (reviewed) Richard Foster Solitude Quotes

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