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Something Else Quotes (page 5)

Giving, not trading or selling, is the basis of success. The most rewarding thing you can do is just to give the world something good. And ultimately you will be paid so much more for that gift than it you had tried to trade it for something else. Russell Simmons
Aidan to Jude: What's wrong with running away if where you were didn't suit you? Doesn't it follow you're funning to something else? Something that does suit you? Nora Roberts
Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else. Henry Rollins
you see what I'm saying?" Mooner said. "Something else always comes along. You go to jail, you don't have to worry about anything. No rent to pay. No food bill to sweat. Free dental plan. And that's worth something, dude. You don't wnat to stick your nose up at free dental. Janet Evanovich
And if I triedto give you something else, something outside myself, you would not knowthat the worst of anyonecan be, finally, an accident of hope Anne Sexton
The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle. Morrie Schwartz
World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. Everything enters something else. My days spill into light-years. This is why I can only pretend to be someone. And this is why I felt derived at first, working on these pages. I didn't know if it was me that was writing so much as someone I want to sound like. Don DeLillo
Fred Rogers quote: "Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at..."
Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else. Fred Rogers
Novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy. Trying something, and when that doesn't work, trying something else. Welcoming clutter Surrendering a good idea for a better one. Knowing you won't find the finish line for a year or two, or five... Richard Russo
If (a writer) has applied himself to an art for 15 or 20 years and they’ve gotten good at it, and they’re expected to do something else to support themselves while the industry that sells this craft supports itself very well, something is badly wrong. Morally wrong. John Irving
You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well, and not be always saying, There’s this and there’s that—if I had this or that to do, I might make something of it. No matter what a man is—I wouldn’t give twopence for him’— here Caleb’s mouth looked... George Eliot
John Updike quote: "The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist..."
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else. John Updike
Julia Cameron quote: "Creativity requires activity…And most of us hate to do..."
Creativity requires activity…And most of us hate to do something when we can obsess about something else instead. Julia Cameron
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re..."
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else. Barbara Kingsolver
Every try to take a toy away from a toddler? They don't like that, do they? They start kicking and screaming. Best way to take a toy away from a toddler is distract the kid, give him something else to play with. Instead of trying to forcefully take thoughts out of your mind, give your mind something better to play with. Elizabeth Gilbert

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