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Happy Valentine’s Day
Posted in Writing, tagged artists, finishing, inspiration, Michael Faraday, quotes, Thoughts, work, writing on February 14, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Try, Try Again
Posted in Writing, tagged creativity, failure, inspiration, progress, quotes, Samuel Beckett, success, Thoughts, work, Writers, writing, yay on January 29, 2014| 1 Comment »
Some of you will have seen this poem, but I fielded a question about it recently and wanted to revisit what is a sometimes painful yet ultimately encouraging truth:
Ever tried.Ever failed.
No matter.
Try again.
Fail again.
Fail better.
—Samuel Beckett
Not “stop trying.” Not “don’t fail.” Fail better. It’s a sentiment close to the heart of many writers:)
It Really Is Monday
Posted in Writing, tagged creativity, inspiration, JK Rowling, quotes, Thoughts, work, writing on January 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »
“…perfection is not necessary to make a real and lasting difference in other people’s lives.”
— JK Rowling
Thank goodness, that’s all I have to say. Because some days the best you can hope for is some small measure of progress. Why, Monday, why?
Time for another cup of tea, methinks:)
Pass It On
Posted in Likes, tagged creativity, Feynman, future, inspiration, Motivation, quotes, science, Thoughts, work, yay on January 8, 2014| 2 Comments »
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
— Richard P. Feynman
A Night and a Sky
Posted in Likes, Writing, tagged inspiration, quotes, space, Thoughts, Van Gogh, writing on December 17, 2013| Leave a Comment »
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
— Vincent van Gogh
Today’s Quote: 12/14/13
Posted in Likes, tagged inspiration, quotes, Thoughts, Victor Frankl, work on December 14, 2013| 1 Comment »
I was thinking about all the things I have to do and the diminishing time in which I have to do them when I came across this lovely quote from “psychiatrist, neurologist and Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl” at the Root Simple blog:
The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet, grows thinner with each passing day. On the other hand, the person who attacks the problems of life actively is like a man who removes each successive leaf from his calendar and files it neatly and carefully away with its predecessors, after first having jotted down a few diary notes on the back. He can reflect with pride and joy on all the richness set down in these notes, on all the life he has already lived to the fullest. What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him?
No, thank you, he will think. Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, although these are things which cannot inspire envy.
I think I’ll choose optimism:)
Trying to Focus Here…
Posted in Writing, tagged Anne Lamott, creativity, Motivation, quotes, sauerkraut, Thoughts, work, writing on December 12, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Some days I find it hard to focus. My mind wanders, and if I don’t turn off the internet I suddenly discover myself researching machine embroidery, the weather patterns of eastern Nepal, or the art of lactic acid fermentation. All fine topics, to be sure, but sadly Not What I Am Supposed to be Doing at the moment.
If you also have this problem at times, I recommend the following bit of wisdom from Anne Lamott:
Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don’t drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor’s yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.
― Anne Lamott
That was yesterday. Today will be better.
If I could just find some more newspaper.
Secret Worlds
Posted in Likes, tagged creativity, inspiration, Motivation, neil gaiman, quotes, Thoughts on October 21, 2013| 1 Comment »
It’s Monday, but that doesn’t mean there can’t be magic:
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.”
— Neil Gaiman
And as ruler of my very own imaginary worlds, I hereby abolish Mondays!
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