Mary Garden quotes

Mary Garden quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.”
-- Mary Garden

#Moving Quotes #Anger Quotes #Creativity Quotes
“In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.”
-- Mary Garden

#Skills Quotes #Australia Quotes #Flying Quotes
“If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.”
-- Mary Garden

#Writing Quotes #Simple Quotes #Doors Quotes
“Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.”
-- Mary Garden

#Kings Quotes #Book Quotes #Reading Quotes
“In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing.”
-- Mary Garden

#Giving Up Quotes #Writing Quotes #Track Quotes
“I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.”
-- Mary Garden

#Groups Quotes #Done Quotes #Wells Quotes
“I decided to write about the myths of divorce.”
-- Mary Garden

#Writing Quotes #Divorce Quotes #Myth Quotes
“For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.”
-- Mary Garden

#Block Quotes #Years Quotes #Long Quotes
“My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.”
-- Mary Garden

#Block Quotes #Kind Quotes #Illness Quotes
“I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do, you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.”
-- Mary Garden

#Inspirational Quotes #People Quotes #Nervous Quotes
“My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.”
-- Mary Garden

#Writing Quotes #Hopeless Quotes #Critics Quotes
“When you hear the voice of Rosa Ponselle, you hear a fountain of melody blessed by the Lord.”
-- Mary Garden

#Blessed Quotes #Voice Quotes #Lord Quotes
“Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.”
-- Mary Garden

#Religious Quotes #Sex Quotes #Children Quotes
“My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.”
-- Mary Garden

#Block Quotes #Two Quotes #Discipline Quotes
“Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.”
-- Mary Garden

#Spiritual Quotes #Children Quotes #Views Quotes
“It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.”
-- Mary Garden

#Karma Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Children Quotes

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