Waking Up Early famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity.

  • Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister?

  • An empty canvas is a living wonder — far lovelier than certain pictures.

  • Dressing with style is akin to issuing a manifesto; dressing fashionably is like signing a petition.

  • The quickest way for anyone to reach the sun and the light of day is not to run west, chasing after the setting sun, but to head east, plunging into the darkness until one comes to the sunrise.

  • I don't go to see movies to see plots. I'm not interested in puzzles like an Agatha Christie story.

  • It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

  • Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.

  • Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going to express anything to anybody else.

  • Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.