"Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our focus. We drift away from what is difficult and we know to be true, to what is comfortable and socially condoned."

-- Daniel Pinchbeck

#Focus Quotes #Tasks Quotes #Mindfulness Quotes

“One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of oneâ€™s being to take over the work from time to time.”
“If you do a joke that's really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, 'Real original, you're just doing old jokes!' But bands do it all the time.”
“By all means give vent to your anger, let it out in nondestructive ways--if you are still deciding to have it. But begin to think of yourself as someone who can learn to think new thoughts when you are frustrated, so that the immobilizing anger can be replaced by more fulfilling emotions. Annoyance, irritation, and disappointment are feelings that you will very likely continue to experience, since the world will never be the way you want it. But anger, that hurtful emotional response to obstacles, can be eliminated.”
“The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.”
“I might be in a bit of a Skoda garage rather than a Mercedes garage, but I am telling you some old bangers don't half polish up great.”
“My friend Kurt Maix once described this diffidence as Fear's friendly sister, the right and necessary counterweight to that courage that urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction.”

Source : "The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger".
“I don't care when people use the term 'one-Slam wonder' with me.”
“There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.”

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