"You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath. And writing is about filling up, filling up when you are empty, letting images and ideas and smells run down like water - just as writing is also about dealing with the emptiness."

-- Anne Lamott

#Running Quotes #Writing Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“The stronger you stand on your principles, the easier it is to fight. The first time, it's tough, but the second time, it's always easier. You just have to push for your rights.”
“It wasn't going to be our day on the night.”
“Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, youâ€™re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger. To resist takes tremendous conscious effort, you donâ€™t dare let your guard down for an instant. The void puts you on edge, makes your movements tentative and clumsy. But as the climb continues, you grow accustomed to the exposure, you get used to rubbing shoulders with doom, you come to believe in the reliability of your hands and feet and head. You learn to trust your self-control.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Feb 11, 2012
“Came out my mama's pussy, I'm on welfare. Twenty-six years old, still on welfare.”
“There is a growing awareness among brands that in order to participate in conversations that are taking place across social networks, they must join these discussions on the basis of something that is meaningful to their customers.”
“If you do a lot of things to build business, you'll build business. They don't have to be done perfectly to work, although the better you do them, the better they'll work. But the main point is that you have to do them - a lot.”

Source : Joe Girard, Stanley H. Brown (2006). “How to Sell Anything to Anybody”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
“You think the two of us and a slummy motel make for a dangerous combination?”
“I'll co-host TODAY from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced for that evening's graduation ceremony. I'm still touching up my remarks, but my challenge to the Class of 2010 will be to break through the deafening and too often negative echo chamber of the digital era and become critical and independent thinkers.”

Source : "Lester Holt: Fulfilling a promise to Class of 2010" by Steve Veres, www.today.com. May 15, 2010.

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