Mock Quote by Annie Dillard Download Open image “A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being.” — Annie Dillard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mock Order Reason Schedules Writing life
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 we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.… — Annie Dillard Copy Share
I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity. — Twyla Tharp 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
“People who claim that they’re “not the scheduling kind of person” are masterly schedulers at other times: They always teach at the same time,… — Paul J. Silvia Copy Share Image
“Don't let your schedule rule you - just do what you gotta do - or don't do it if you don't want to do… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
If you want an active schedule, you have to husband your time so you can act on the things that are important. — Robert Pozen Copy Share Image
In the evening Everything has a schedule, if you can find out what it is. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
I like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular. — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
“In other words, I not only allow spontaneity in my schedule; I encourage it. Joseph’s critique is driven by the mistaken idea that the… — Cal Newport 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
My hero among heroes is my grandmother, she's the epitome of strength and I try to mock that strength all the time. She's a… — Aeriel Miranda Copy Share Image
“It can be so difficult to train up the peasants,” she said, pretending to commiserate, her voice heavy with irony. “They find it so… — Caitlin Crews Copy Share Image
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretch'd beneath… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Africans sensed in their hearts that Jesus did not mock their respect for the sacred or their clamor for an invincible Savior, so they… — Lamin Sanneh Copy Share Image
“He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Doubt not the self O lion-heart, for those who call you crazy will one day worship you.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to… — Eric Rucker Eddison Copy Share Image
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