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It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really do get a…

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...It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's…
Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle,…
Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this…
True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and…
The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to…
Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would…
Reassurance can actually exacerbate anxiety: when you reassure your friend that the worst-case scenario he fears probably won't occur, you inadvertently reinforce…
The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours…
Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.
The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable,
It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really…

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It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a… — Drew Barrymore
I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces… — Kurt Cobain
There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the… — Tori Amos
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. — Benjamin Disraeli
As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves! — Percy Bysshe Shelley
One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust… — Charles Dickens
Own what you are, and I mean whether that's art, or whether that's fashion, or whether that's music, or whether that's acting,… — Courtney Love
Robert Spencer, a prolific anti-Islam writer and a leading Islamophobe who is bent on distorting Islam and demonizing Muslims, has persistently argued… — Unknown Author
Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster. — Niklaus Wirth
Most bloggers who rise above the clutter are quite often prolific -they work hard, not just writing content but networking, engaging in… — Darren Rowse
A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it… — William James

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