Quotation Saturday

THOUGHTS/THINKING

"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once and a while, or the light won't come in." 

-- Alan Alda

“The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.” 

-- Norman Vincent Peale

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.” 

-- Benjamin Disraeli

"The most expensive piece of real estate is the six inches between your right and left ear. It’s what you create in that area that determines your wealth. We are only really limited by our mind." 

-- Dr. Dolf de Roos


RESPONSIBILITIES

Learn to do what ought to be done, when it should be done, whether you like it or not.
--Roy W. Haley

What a fearful object a long neglected duty gets to be!
--Chauncey Kent Wright

DREAMS

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
--Paul Valery
 

A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
--Henry David Thoreau
 

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

ON WRITING
 

"I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork."
--Peter de Vries
 

"A writer is working when he's staring out of the window."
--Burton Rascoe
 

"The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention."
--Ezra Pound
 

"I try to leave out the parts that people skip." 

--Elmore Leonard
 

“The life of any human is to move forward, don’t sweat the small stuff, and lap up beauty in the micro of life!”
--Joni Zipp