"A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe."

-- Bess Streeter Aldrich

#Voice Quotes #Feet Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.”
“It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast.”
“It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always been the success of a single victor. Coalition successes bear by the very nature of their origin the germ of future crumbling, in fact of the loss of what has already been achieved. Great, truly world-shaking revolutions of a spiritual nature are not even conceivable and realizable except as the titanic struggles of individual formations, never as enterprises of coalitions.”

Source : Robert Fitzgerald, Ed Dowling, Bill W. (1995). “The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S. J. and Bill Wilson in Letters”, p.32, Hazelden Publishing
“Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.”
“It is instructive to see how organizations pursue their goal of reducing errors and uncertainty. They impose standards, employ checklists, demand that knowledge workers list assumptions for their conclusions and document all sources. These actions either directly interfere with forming insights or create an environment where insights and discoveries are treated with suspicion because they might lead to errors. They signal to knowledge workers that their job is not to make mistakes. Even if they don't make discoveries, no one can blame them as long as they don't make mistakes.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“How to make money from Facebook and Twitter: (1) Go to 'Account Settings' (2) Click 'Deactivate your account' (3) Go back to work!”

Source : FaceBook post by Papa CJ from May 04, 2013
“I blew that clay pigeon to smithereens. I don't know why Mum got so upset. According to Uncle Andrew she's a crack shot herself. But she says I'm too young. What I'd like to know is how old does a person have to be before they get to do all the fun stuff?”
“The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.”

You may also like:

Loren Eiseley
Science writer
Mari Sandoz
Novelist
Mignon G. Eberhart
Author
Pearl S. Buck
Writer
Richard Dooling
Novelist
Ted Kooser
Poet
Willa Cather
Author
Wright Morris
Novelist
John Neihardt
Writer