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Working It Quotes (page 43)

Jack Kerouac quote: "It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity..."
It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet. Jack Kerouac
Anne Tyler quote: "It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings..."
It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work. Anne Tyler
It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one of my hands. His fingers feel hot, fever-hot, and pounding with his heartbeats. He turns my hand palm-up saying, 'No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.' He sets the blue pill on my palm, saying, 'Do that one wrong thing- and you'll be dead for the rest of your life. Chuck Palahniuk
It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and lead this life, the one I am leading today. Each morning the blue clock and the crocheted bedspread, the table with the Phone, the books and magazines, the Times at the door. Elizabeth Hardwick
It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart. Haruki Murakami
It was a long time since he'd done any actual clinical work, and obviously his sojourn among the academics at Saro University had attenuated the professional detachment that allows members of the healing arts to confront the ill without being overwhelmed by compassion and sorrow. He was surprised at that, how tenderhearted he seemed to have become, how thin-skinned. Isaac Asimov
It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit, and to know that all blessed dead are standing about you and watching. Work is love made visible. Khalil Gibran
Shirley Hazzard quote: "It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state..."
It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of. Shirley Hazzard
It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run to my friends, my work, and my distractions so that I can forget my nothingness and make myself believe that I am worth something. The task is to persevere in my solitude, to stay in my cell until all my seductive visitors get tired of pounding on my door and leave me alone. The wisdom of the desert is that the confrontation with our own frightening... Henri Nouwen
It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the presentmoment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seemsto work in whispers and small kindnesses. Charles de Lint
It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her. Michel de Montaigne
It is, I think, the rarest of leisure, hard work mixed with hard pleasure, to refine one's time of deep thought or light regard into the utterly self-absorbed and equally and abundantly outward-seeking shape of the personal essay -- a story comprised of found fact, of analyzed emotion, of fictive memory. Barry Lopez
It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all. Dorothy Day
It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work. George Bernard Shaw
It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere. Terry Prachett

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