"In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living."

-- Malcolm Cowley

#Writing Quotes #Men Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.”
“It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit down to them from time to time. It was largesse that made us all; we were not created to fast forever... Enter here, therefore, as a sovereign remedy for the narrowness of our minds and the stinginess of our souls.”
“Your work matters a great deal to God, to others and to our world. There is no ordinary work. The work God has called you to do is extraordinary. Don't miss out on God's best by taking an ordinary approach to it.”
“The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contraditory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of potential knowers... of all men to the extent that they know.”
“Humility, or poverty of spirit, is not a matter of thinking low thoughts about ourselves. It is not a matter of groveling in the dust. It is simply a matter of knowing ourselves as we really are. And when we see ourselves as we really are, we will see that we are poor.”

Source : John W. Miller (1969). “The Christian way: a guide to the Christian life based on the Sermon on the Mount”
“God has never disappointed me.”

Source : "The Uncut Brenda Lee Interview". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.
“We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasnt time for endless refinements.”
“Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.”

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