"Wherein we discover that many of the "rules"……" — Natalie Goldberg
"Wherein we discover that many of the "rules" for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose control, and don't think."
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118 Quotes by Natalie Goldberg
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Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a…
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Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we…
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All of us can create if we allow ourselves to.
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Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.
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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're…
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We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there…
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Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being…
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That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss…
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This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.…
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Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
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Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no…
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More Control Quotes
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
— Aristotle
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning…
— Isaac Asimov
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The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way…
— Bashar al-Assad
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Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
— Margaret Atwood
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
— Paul Auster
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path…
— Irving Babbitt
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
— Lord Acton
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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality…
— Lord Acton
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Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it.…
— Michael Badnarik
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It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and…
— Red Adair
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If you want to control other people, first control yourself.
— Abu Bakr
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