"The fact is that writing, like any creative undertaking, carries with it both pain and great joy. The pain is often inherent in the most fertile subject matter; the joy lies in transforming that subject matter and thus moving through it in a way that helps us grow while we create something of value to others."

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Source : Judith Barrington (2002). “Writing the Memoir”

Judith Barrington

#Pain Quotes #Lying Quotes #Moving Quotes

“Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. The influence a leader exerts in altering moods, evoking images and expectations, and in establishing specific desires and objectives determines the direction an organization takes. The net result of this influence is to change the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary. In other words, leaders are visionaries and managers operate within those established visions.”
“There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.”
“I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.”
“My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?”
“To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.”

Source : 'The Court and Country' (1618) para. 8
“Anytime you go upside a man's head - or a woman - then they have a tendency to blink they eyes. Or close they eyes.”
“It is an old custom of the servants of God to have some little prayer ready and to be frequently darting them up to heaven during the day, lifting their minds to God out of the mire of this world.”
“Conduct yourself in this world as if you are here to stay forever, and yet prepare for eternity as if you are to die tomorrow.”

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