Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, quotes, Thoughts on March 12, 2024| Leave a Comment »
As usual, Tuesdays are not 100% fun here at Chez J but that’s fine. I still hope that your day is a good one.
Being in a bad mood is not a license to be unkind. Being sensitive is not an excuse for being abusive.
Respect is a social responsibility. Treating it as optional reveals a lack of concern for others.
A mark of character is maintaining civility when things don’t go your way.
— Adam Grant
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, quotes, Thoughts, Writers, writing on March 6, 2024| Leave a Comment »
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.
— Leonard Bernstein
I found this line at a fun site that serves up quotes based on your mood: APLIFT. And given my lack of time today, it fits.
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, quotes, Thoughts on February 18, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”
— Desmond Tutu
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, genre fiction, inspiration, Octavia Butler, quotes, Thoughts, Writers, writing on February 5, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice. You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”
― Octavia E. Butler
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, Fiction, genre fiction, quotes, success, Thoughts, Writers, writing on January 26, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.”
— Herbert Swope, American editor and journalist
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, quotes, Thoughts, Writers, writing on January 21, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. To “Why am I here?” To uselessness. It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.
— Enid Bagnold (1889–1981), British novelist, playwright
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, inspiration, quotes, Thoughts, Writers, writing on January 4, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
— Joan Didion
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, inspiration, quotes, Thoughts, Writers on October 4, 2023| Leave a Comment »
“It’s the people, in the end, isn’t it?” says Viktor. “It’s always the people. You can move halfway around the world to find your perfect life, move to Australia if you like, but it always comes down to the people you meet.”
― Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, quotes, Thoughts, Tuesdays on October 3, 2023| Leave a Comment »
The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.
— Dame Helen Mirren
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Posted in Likes, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2023, creativity, inspiration, quotes, Thoughts, Writers on August 6, 2023| Leave a Comment »
“Stuff your eyes with wonder,” he said, “live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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J.R. Johnson 
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