"If you criticize what youâ€™re doing too early youâ€™ll never write the first line."

-- Max Frisch

#Writing Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Lines Quotes

“For years, computer scientists were treating operating systems design as sort of an open-reserch issue, when the field's direction had been decided by commercial operations. Computer science has become completely cut off from reality.”
“When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.”
“To practice kata is not to memorize an order. Find the katas that work for you, understand them, digest them & stick with them for life.”
“I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.”
“You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!”

Source : "Fictional character: Fiorello". "A Night at the Opera", 1935.
“Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity!”
“I owe everything to the gift of Pentecost. For fifty days the facts of the Gospel were complete, but no conversions were recorded. Pentecost registered three thousand souls. It is by fire that a holy passion is kindled in the soul whereby we live the life of God. The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power.”
“In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.”

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