Be grateful for every word you can cut.

The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'

— Christopher Buckley

I think you're sort of always waiting, wondering when the word "cut" is going to be said when you're doing a scene. Like you're…

— Ashton Kutcher

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out

— George Orwell

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

— Mark Twain

Speak what I have to be grateful for when I get up and when I lie down to sleep. Meditation and prayer. I pray…

— Regina Taylor

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another for there will always be others whose lives on the face of it…

— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

Just remember: to be grateful and thank the people who are there and support you along the way is a great start to success.

— Meryl Davis

My first encounter with yoga was in 1969 with my older brother Doug. I was thirteen years old, and he was eighteen. He'd learned…

— David F. Swensen

The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers…

— David Walker

Focus on being grateful for what you have already .. enjoy it!! Then release into the universe. The universe will manifest it.

— Rhonda Byrne

Often I'm told I'm an inspiration to people which I will forever be grateful for. But the reality is that I'm only able to…

— Lizzie Velasquez

Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.

— Steve Lacy

Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that…

— Aldous Huxley

Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life.

— Stephen Colbert