"People have been asking me, "What advice do you have for young writers?" I tell them: a) get off social media; b) don't ask your friends what they think about your work or your ideas. You need to focus and be insane within yourself to build your sandcastle. The mind is so malleable and you need to have a steel trap around it, at least while you're working on something."

-- Ottessa Moshfegh

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Focus Quotes

“The words are all around but the words are only sounds and no one ever seems to listen.”

Source : Song: Traffic In The Sky, Album: On And On
“I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.”
“The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves.”
“Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself.”
“Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.”

Source : Thurgood Marshall, Mark V. Tushnet (2001). “Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences”, p.375, Chicago Review Press
“I've seen how much effort has to go into a tour, the performance and also how to look after yourself, not just physically, but mentally too.”
“A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.”
“Precision medicine is diving into the DNA with a knowledge that everybody's tumor has a unique genetic profile and you want to be able to identify that specific piece of DNA that has become mutated and that is driving cancer growth.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org

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