Maud Newton quotes
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“I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.”
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“In winter I like sprawling novels, full of conflict and intrigue, and during the bleakest, coldest days of December I holed up with Nicola Griffith 's Hild, a book of love and sex and war and religious upheaval, and I recommend it even over the warmest pair of Sorels.”
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“But the idea is to provoke and persuade, not to soothe. And the best way to make an argument is to make it, straightforwardly, honestly, passionately, without regard to whether people will like you afterward.”
-- Maud Newton
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“The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.”
Source : Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial
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“Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time”
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“For Yesterday was once To-morrow.”
Source : Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Aulus Persius Flaccus, John Dryden (1693). “The Satires, Translated Into English Verse by J. Dryden ... Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus Made English by Mr. Dryden”
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“He who puts off nothing till tomorrow has done a great deal.”
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Source : A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com
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