“APPROACH Rain is falling. Winter approaches. I drive towards it. In the slow rain. In the semi-darkness. Cello music is playing in… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“I had never thought about it, but summer was Dill by the fishpool smoking string, Dill's eyes alive with complicated plans to… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
“From birth to death, from Monday to Monday, from morning to evening—all activities are routinized, and prefabricated. How should a man caught… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Sometimes I don't pick up the guitar for six months or so," "Other times I get away, go to a hotel or… — Holly Golightly Copy Share Image
My routine when I have an interview day is, I wake up, I eat a bagel, I drink coffee, I drive to… — Alex Cooper Copy Share Image
The shutdown itself is bad but not devastating. The real danger will come up in a couple of weeks. There's legislation which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Lauren: Like how many people you're...like how many times your life is gonna totally change and then, like, start all over again?… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
Indeed, my conclusion from a lifetime of psychohistorical study of childhood and society is that the history of humanity is founded upon… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
To be fair, on a good project, no matter whether it's improvised or scripted or meticulously prepared, or all up for grabs,… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
Golf is no longer a game of hitting the ball, finding it, and hitting it again. There is wind to be measured,… — Doug Ferguson Copy Share Image
[Mate] really is an overall incredible health drink and on top of it it's part of the culture. It's something my whole… — Chris Algieri Copy Share Image
Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem,… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues,… — Bill Drayton Copy Share Image
Every kingdom work, whether publicly performed or privately endeavored, partakes of the kingdom's imperishable character. Every honest intention, every stumbling word of… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness. I need only suggest what kind… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had this idea for a long time to make a film about a poet in Paterson named Patterson. I wanted him… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
If you want to aspire to be any pitcher in the game right now, it's probably Madison Bumgarner. I really keep a… — Tyler Beede Copy Share Image
“As long as there is thirst in you, water can quench it; but you can live a kind of life in which… — Osho Copy Share Image
I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
At the 2012 Olympic Trials, I wanted to make a second Olympic team. I fell face first, and in a blink of… — Nastia Liukin Copy Share Image
I like making series, for a couple reasons. One, the repetition of routine is very healthy because I can get a little… — Paul Madonna Copy Share Image
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
I think the fitness of players is the key to success. I believe that there should be no place of unfit players… — Shahid Afridi Copy Share Image
“If there’s a single idea I emphasize when people ask about writing, it’s that there’s no right way to produce a book.… — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
All communication is like art. It may fairly be said, therefore, that any social arrangement that remains vitally social, or vitally shared,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Certainly, black horror movie fans have, you know, been particularly vocal. I mean, there's the whole Eddie Murphy routine about, you know,… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration-of oneself and… — Lance Secretan Copy Share Image
There's no point sitting here, using words that mean nothing. Go and experiment. It's time you got out of here. Go and… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Children with autism are constantly testing and pursuing truth. They are a bundle of contradictions. They love order and routine, yet often… — Adele Devine Copy Share Image
There's a paradox in the notion that creativity should be a habit. We think of creativity as a way of keeping everything… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Superficial people are those who simply go along without a question in the world-asking nothing, troubled by nothing, examining nothing. Whatever people… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image