"The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers or you type on your laptop, but you need to have a limber mind and you need to be able to write without judging what you've written, at least right away, and without editing right away."

-- Augusten Burroughs

#Writing Quotes #Editing Quotes #Judging Quotes

“A worker in the rural reconstruction must have: The body of an athlete The attitude of a teacher The mind of a scientist The heart of a missionary The spirit of a crusader.”
“We will be spending less in the transfer market in future years.”

Source : "Abramovich: no more of the big spender" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2006.
“Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.”
“Itâ€™s so dangerous to idealize anything, or anyone, or any place, because it gives that thing or person or place a kind of permission to not have to change, and not have to evolve. It encourages us to bury our heads in the sand, or in values that are really morally neutral but that we pretend are moral goods: tradition, community and family for example.”
“The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.”
“I don't even know what I'm looking for, although I hope I'll know it if I find it along the way. Sometimes I want to simplify my life into a simple bare thing. And other times I want to complicate it so thoroughly that everything I touch will become bound in some way to me. I've become quite aware of my contradictions, but there's no true resolution in that.”
“The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.”
“Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.”

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