"Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon."

-- Raymond Chandler

#Morning Quotes #Writing Quotes #Typewriters Quotes

“Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.”
“Rich people believe - I create my life; poor people believe - life happens to me”
“Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.”
“If you can find one thing in your life that can keep you in the moment, you're totally lucky.”
“I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.”

Source : Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.104, Penguin
“The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations, inadequate formulation, and unconscious prejudice is rarely appreciated by those who obtain their scientific knowledge from textbooks.”
“People are not "things" to be manipulated, labeled, boxed, bought, and sold. Above all else, they are not "human resources." They are entire human beings, containing the whole of the evolving universe, limitless until we start limiting them. We must examine the concept of leading and following with new eyes. We must examine the concept of superior and subordinate with increasing skepticism. We must examine the concept of management and labor with new beliefs. And we must examine the nature of organizations that demand such distinctions with an entirely different consciousness.”

Source : Dee Hock, VISA International (1999). “Birth of the Chaordic Age”, p.73, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“I realized eventually that if I was really on top of what I was doing, I should be able to make photographs out of almost anything.”

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