Vinita Hampton Wright quotes
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“God's primary concerns have to do with your well-being, not your performance.”
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“Love trumps everything. Love's decision will not always be kind to your artistic life.”
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”
Source : Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 3 Nov. 1831) See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Thoreau 16
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Source : Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.4, Transaction Publishers
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“Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.”
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“Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'”
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“Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.”
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“He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.”
Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.49, Macmillan
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