Marie Chapian famous quotes

Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath.
-- Marie Chapian

#Smoking #Done #New Life

Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.
-- Marie Chapian

#Frustration #Self #Discipline

aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

To rush in upon an event before its significance has had time to separate from the surrounding circumstances may be enterprising, but is it useful? ... The recent prevalence of these hot histories on publishers' lists raises the question: Should - or perhaps can - history be written while it is still smoking?

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet.

Well, wherever you go, whatever you do, you're still you. You can change your surroundings, start a new life, but you'll always fall into the same old patterns, make the same kind of friends, commit the same mistakes. The thing you need to change is yourself.

Childbirth calls into question our very existence, requiring an expectant couple to confront not only new life but death, pain, fear and, most of all, change.