"I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days."

-- Dick Schaap

#Mistake Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“You're looking, moment by moment and scene by scene, how you can tell the most interesting story. So, we had this great short and we knew that we had a story about a boy and his dog. Because we had that pure emotional core, we could go on crazy tangents and always come back to Victor and Sparky. When I wrote in stuff like Weird Girl and the cat poop, Dutch Day and the windmill, it felt like it was part of Tim's universe.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness.”

Source : Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure (2004). “The luminous ground: an essay on the art of building and the nature of the universe”
“With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.”
“No matter how it looks to us, love never loses control; the laws of our relations are as honest and as exact as the laws of physics.”

Source : Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.60, Gibbs Smith
“Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.”

Source : "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.
“Expensive clothes with inappropriate or inexpensive shoes may send an unflattering message.”
“Now the Earth's face is lathered white with shaving soap It's a long time till the razor once more makes its face smooth and fresh and green.”
“I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others on the team.”

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