Catching Quote by Annie Dillard Download Open image “A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.” — Annie Dillard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Catching Chaos Schedules Whim
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some people are… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
When you're in this league, you have to do something every single day. You have off days, but those off days are usually watching… — Patrick Mahomes Copy Share Image
“Time blocking, as it’s called, helps ensure that you don’t schedule other things on the days—or part of a day—you’ve set aside to work… — Valerie Young Copy Share Image
Some tournaments are played in one day - you might start at nine o'clock in the morning and it won't end till one o'clock… — Phil Taylor Copy Share Image
“This is a spendthrift economy; though nothing is lost, all is spent.” — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“...The mockingbird took a single step into the air and dropped. His wings were still folded against his sides as though he were singing… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees crossed, in blue slacks, smoking… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year-old who wakes… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
When they [people with insomnia] start worrying about not sleeping, I'll say, "Say the mantra to myself; if I don't sleep tonight, I'll likely… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals. — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
When you mention to people growing up in Cleveland they bring up the river catching on fire, or LeBron James leaving, they have these… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I'll just do a round around of the house and make sure the rest of the family are fast asleep. We don't want that… — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Some kids win the lottery at birth; far too many don't - and most people have a hard time catching up over the rest… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Attitudes truly are contagious, and from time to time we need to ask ourselves, 'Is mine worth catching?' — Mac Anderson Copy Share Image
I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me, excite my blood. Being always on one’s guard, catching every glance, the… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
I'm looking for a feel and I have to find what that feel is before I can move on from there. I'm not necessarily… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
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