"I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done"

-- Clifford Geertz

#Writing Quotes #Done Quotes #Ends Quotes

“We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.”
“Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.”
“I’ve never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesn’t feel right or isn’t going the way it should, I listen to my instincts and change it.”
“If risk is the key factor to success and really smart people avoid it, you might not be dumb enough to succeed!”
“People tend to romanticize what they can't quite remember.”
“The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.”

Source : David Harvey (2010). “Social Justice and the City”, p.315, University of Georgia Press
“A lot of times when people meet me, theyll definitely try to make me feel young or inexperienced. Like, Its all taken care of. Teenagers are such a discerning group of people. Theyll immediately sniff out anything that feels contrived. Im, like, constantly scanning myself to see if Im some corporate executive version of a teenager. Ive developed something of a fearsome reputation. People know that if you talk down to me, I will roll my eyes or whatever.”
“It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back to hit you.”

Source : "Rutherford and the Nature of the Atom" by E. N. da C. Andrade, (p. 111), 1964.

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