"One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I'll have lost nothing-writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off."

-- Lawrence Block

#Morning Quotes #Writing Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Experts have their expert fun ex cathedra telling one just how nothing can be done.”
“Seeing with the eyes of Christ, I can give to others much more than their outward necessities; I can give them the look of love which they crave.”
“Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming nakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the poorest home.”

Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1873). “Oldport Days”, p.218
“Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.”

Source : Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.2, Bantam
“The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.”
“The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.”
“At the heart of all things is love.”
“Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?”

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