When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.
—John Steinbeck (1939, jacket design by Elmer Hader; Public Domain)
…and then only focus on the piece in front of you. Repeat this process with tenacious persistence, and you will complete amazing works.
—Mike Hazell
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Always go to other people’s funerals. Otherwise, they won’t come to yours. —Yogi Berra (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. —Arnold Bennett, prolific British author and playwright (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. —Robert Browning (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness. —Gelett Burgess, American artist, author, and...
One principal reason why people are so often (unproductive) is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits. —Nathanael Emmons (Image licensed by Penn...
The older you get the stronger the wind gets – and it’s always in your face. —Pablo Picasso (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. —Warren G. Bennis, pioneer in the field of leadership studies (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. —James A. Garfield (Photographer unknown; Public Domain)
Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. The greatest real thrill that life offers is (the ability) to create, to construct, to develop something useful. —Alfred P....
I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it. —Mae West (1932, unknown journalist/photographer; Public Domain)
Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one. —Horace Greeley, American newspaper editor and publisher (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
Next in importance to freedom and justice is education, without which neither freedom nor justice could be permanently maintained. —James A. Garfield, 20th president of the United States...
It is by managing your finances that you write the story of your life. You are both the author and the story’s principal character. Resolve to perform what you ought. —Benjamin Franklin (1778, by...
Confidence and anxiety are two opposing forces; the two cannot peacefully coexist within you at any given time. Think of a subject which is causing you distress. Now, vividly imagine the best...
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. —Mark Twain (Image licensed by Penn Wealth)
Some days it is difficult to continue moving forward with our plans; those points at which we see very little progress being made, no matter the effort being put forth. Though we may not realize...
It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1828, by Joseph Karl Stieler; Public Domain)
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. —St. Thomas Aquinas (by Carlo Crivelli; Public Domain)
No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no...
Technological progress has provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. —Aldous Huxley, author, Brave New World (1954; Public Domain)
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