"Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be taught; indeed, it cannot even be summoned; it can only be permitted."

-- William Hughes Mearns

#Writing Quotes #Expression Quotes #Self Quotes

“My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us, and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world. As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him: 'Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.'”
“My visitors say they noticed perfumes from different companies in my fridge, and ask what I need these for. I explain that they are mainly there as historical benchmarks of quality, below which I must not and would not want to fall.”
“The quickest way to correct the other fellow's attitude is to correct your own.”
“You canâ€™t really innovate for the past (your offering wonâ€™t be innovative and will be beaten easily by competitors). If you innovate for the future, then adoption will be slow until customers become ready. The trick is to task your insights team to provide guidance for the future present.”
“Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and approval.”
“Self is not liberated. It was never bound. What gets liberated are the demons as well as gods of your mind. Set them free. You are sick of playing with the game. Be willing to not play the game. This takes huge resolve.”
“The comedy I like the best is comedy I can't do, stuff that doesn't touch my arena.”
“The most terrible things end, at last.”

Source : James Theodore Bent (1885). “The Cyclades: Or, Life Among the Insular Greeks”, London, Longmans

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