"I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: â€˜the ordeal is part of the commitment.â€™ Itâ€™s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable."

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Source : "Philip Roth Goes Home Again" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 7, 2010.

Philip Roth

#Commitment Quotes #Writing Quotes #Use Quotes

“True creativity often starts where language ends.”

Source : Arthur Koestler (1969). “The Act of Creation”
“The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.”
“Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.”
“Whatever we saw in October 1941, cannot be compared to anything that we had seen prior, when our forces retreated from the Dniepr borders. Now, things like this no longer happen. Now, we can frown by ourselves.”

Source : "I. C. Bagramyan: A Photo Album About A Soviet Marshal", Yerevan, 1987.
“Paul Lambert has assembled a great bunch of lads and training has been going very well. I am just desperate to get into the team and do my best for the club.”
“Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is secure for those who obey the law of work.”
“When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.”
“Now I have demonstrated, that the convolutions of the brain are nothing but the peripheric expansion of the bundles of which it is composed; consequently the convolutions of the brain must be recognized as the parts in which the instincts, sentiments, propensities are exercised; and, in general the moral and intellectual forces.”

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