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— Richard Foster, Freedom of Simplicity
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A job done by half is never done right.
— Mom
Seize the Day
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Misunderstanding Others
ByHeather
It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.
— Karl A. Menninger, The Human Mind
This quote is a more poetic version of the one I posted yesterday that said, “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
According to Dr. George Watson at the University of Delaware, Karl Menninger was an early psychoanalyst who was probably referring to the criminal mind in this quote. Dr. Watson provides an expanded context of the quote.
Public Speaking
ByHeather
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
Hemingway on Writing
ByHeather
A writer’s problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.
— Ernest Hemingway
The writing bug has been tickling my fingertips again. What do I know to be true? And, having discovered what I know to be true, how do I explain it in such a way that the person who reads it understands it?
Stay tuned . . .
War
ByHeather
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
— Jeannette Rankin
First woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives