"There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is"

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Source : William George Jordan (2007). “The Majesty of Calmness”, p.43, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

William George Jordan

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“Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is of course a truly volatile issue in teaching memoir or the personal essay, because there's no pretense that the narrator is a character.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I have to paint fast on television because of the limited time, but I don't want people to see what I'm showing them as work, something to worry and fret over. This is supposed to be fun.”
“The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 11, 2007.
“I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.”
“To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.”
“If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.”
“Every second you spend thinking about what you don't want in your life is a second denying focus and energy from getting what you do want. Every minute you worry about what's not working is a minute drawn away from creating what will work. And every hour spent reflecting on the disappointments of the past is an hour stolen from seeing the possibilities that your future holds.”
“These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.”

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