"If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going to have given things a chance to have their moments of sprouting."

-- Nicholson Baker

#Writing Quotes #Chance Quotes #Moments Quotes

“Without work men are utterly undone”

Source : Nevil Shute (1991). “Ruined City”
“Every time I write a song it feels like it could be the last one I do, or it always feels like a fluke.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.”

Source : Attributed in "The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time" by Leslie Pockell, November 23, 2004.
“"Religions" of the Roman world varied. Most of it was ritual practices. There were periodic occasions when cities honored their guardian deities with sacrifices and ceremonies, to ensure that they stayed happy and kept the city safe.”

Source : Source: www.patheos.com
“The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.”

Source : Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage
“We had a general awareness, for example, of Russian use of social media - Facebook ads, use of Twitter, fake news implants - we had a general understanding of that. But now, as time has elapsed and time has gone on, I've certainly learned a lot more about the depth and breadth of what the Russians were about.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“Friendship is more important than truth.”
“The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions.”

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