Vinita Hampton Wright quotes

Give me the discipline to get rid of the stuff that's not important, the freedom to savor the stuff that gives me joy, and the patience not to worry about the stuff that's messy but not hurting anybody.
-- Vinita Hampton Wright

#Hurt #Discipline #Giving

For some people, the beginning is a time of complete chaos. You see bits and pieces of what is before you. You have a sense of what it is you must set out to do. But nothing will form yet. When you sit down to write or paint or form movement, it's like stepping over a cliff or into a dense fog. All you can do is trust that this impending masterpiece is going to somehow manifest itself as you work. But you do know that there is something specific ahead, and you feel the excitement of that.
-- Vinita Hampton Wright

#Writing #Fog #People

God's primary concerns have to do with your well-being, not your performance.
-- Vinita Hampton Wright

#Well Being #Concern #Wells

Love trumps everything. Love's decision will not always be kind to your artistic life.
-- Vinita Hampton Wright

#Artistic Life #Decision #Be Kind

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

It’s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.

Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.

Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.