"Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place."

-- Karen Russell

#Writing Quotes #Self Quotes #Perfection Quotes

“Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.”
“Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.”

Source : John Updike (2013). “Picked-Up Pieces: Essays”, p.22, Random House
“Eventually, Americans would be stuck with government-run health care whether they like it or not. That's when the worst scenario would take shape, with Americans subjected to bureaucratic hassles, hours spent on hold waiting for a government service rep to take a call, restrictions on care, and, yes, lifesaving treatment and lifesaving surgeries denied or delayed.”
“Through getting sponsored and becoming a part of the Bones Brigade and Powell Peralta, doors were being opened. The entire culture was shifting from ramps to street, and I sort of became a poster child for that.”
“It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.”
“The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.”

Source : John Clellon Holmes (2015). “Go: A Novel”, p.247, Open Road Media
“The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.”
“By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.”

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