"Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present."

-- Brenda Ueland

#Creative Quotes #Live In The Present Quotes

“Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.”
“To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.”
“unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it”
“There are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and privilege and the principles of truth and justice. If you pursue truth and justice it will always mean a diminution of power and privilege. If you pursue power and privilege, it will always be at the expense of truth and justice”

Source : Chris Hedges (2011). “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress”, p.92, Hachette UK
“My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.”
“Fear sucks. Because you never know when it will attack. Sometimes it sneaks up behind you, giggling like your best girlfriend from seventh grade. Then it whacks you on the back of the head, takes you straight to your knees before you realize what hit you. Other times you can see it coming, just a dot on the horizon, but you're like a canary in a cage. All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers.”
“It's just as much a stretch to believe in God as it is to be an Atheist”
“It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.”

Source : "The Great Rehearsal: The Story of the Making and Ratifying of the Constitution of the United States". Book by Carl Clinton Van Doren, 1948.

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