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Workings Quotes (page 174)

Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's..."
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose. Barbara Kingsolver
Augusten Burroughs quote: "Never work with children, puppies or bulimics"
Never work with children, puppies or bulimics Augusten Burroughs
Gerard Way quote: "The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night,..."
The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night, I try to meet a girl, it's a waste of time. Gerard Way
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work..."
Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What is love but understanding and rejoicing that another lives, works, and feels in a different and opposite way to ourselves? That love may be able to bridge over the contrasts by joys, we must not remove or deny those contrasts. Friedrich Nietzsche
Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly. Anne Lamott
Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he had to go and intellectualize it. Jonathan Franzen
... Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world. What I find appealing in life abroad was the inevitable sense of helplessness it would inspire. Equally exciting would be the work involved in overcoming that helplessness. There would be a goal involved, and I like having goals. David Sedaris
Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all. Robert M. Pirsig
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not..."
what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art Vladimir Nabokov
There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken. Jonathan Franzen
You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world. Malcolm Gladwell
To imagine writing as absence seems to be a simple repetition, in transcendental terms, of both the religious principle of the inalterable and yet never fulfilled tradition, and the aesthetic principle of the work's survival, its perpetuation beyond the author's death, and it enigmatic excess in relation to him. Michel Foucault
Imagine you're a forty-year-old, Richard," Hamilton said to me around this time, while working as a salesman at a Radio Shack in Lynn Valley,"and suddenly somebody comes up to you saying, 'Hi, I'd like you to meet Kevin. Kevin is eighteen and will be making all of your career decisions for you.' I'd be flipped out. Wouldn't you? But that's what life is all about - some eighteen-year-old kid making your big decisions for you that stick for a lifetime." He shuddered. Doug Coupland
Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own great merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation. Samuel Johnson

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