"You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things."

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Source : "Neil Gaiman’s Advice to Aspiring Writers" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. September 11, 2013.

Neil Gaiman

#Design Quotes #Finishing Quotes

“Jesus always pointed people towards a better version of themselves - particularly when they'd failed.”
“To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsakenâ€”all of these are deeply desired outcomes during the deliberate, divine tutorials which God gives to usâ€”because He loves us. These learning experiences must not be misread as divine indifference. Instead, such tutorials are a part of the divine unfolding.”
“There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.”
“Take your ***** to the barber shop. Tell the barber that you're sick of looking like an asshole.”
“We'll therefore relish with content, Whate'er kind providence has sent, Nor aim beyond our pow'r; For, if our stock be very small, 'Tis prudent to enjoy it all, Nor lose the present hour.”

Source : Nathaniel Cotton, “The Fire-Side”
“You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a very plausible one - that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.”
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.”
“If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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