"Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least, I mean what I say - that's the same thing, you know."
"Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter, "why you might as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!" - Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
All things are difficult before they are easy.
-Thomas Fuller
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-e.e. Cummings
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. -Viktor E. Frankl
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one. —
Voltaire
We can survive functional illiteracy or shattered windows of vulnerability, but not the demise of The Decent Cup of Tea. - Malachi McCormick
-You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
-C. S. Lewis
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." -Maya Angelou
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Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it's just not that good. It's trying to be good, it has potential, but it's not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn't have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I've ever met. It's gonna take awhile. It's normal to take awhile. You've just gotta fight your way through.—Ira Glass |
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