"In handling resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum."

-- Butler Lampson

#Strive Quotes #Disaster Quotes #Resources Quotes

“A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.”
“For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was a young guy who was trying to be cool by writing about young people and a certain kind of Bay Area culture that I was tangentially a part of.”
“Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays.”
“One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.”
“I don't like to think of my readership as 'fans,' a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.”
“Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.”

Source : Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.55, UPNE
“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”
“To free desire from the tendency to cling, we have to be willing to stumble over ourselves.”

Source : Mark Epstein (2006). “Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught”, p.42, Penguin

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